Research Themes in Ming-Qing Socioeconomic History—The State of the Field
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 50 (1) , 84-111
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2057477
Abstract
China's political “opening to the West” in 1979–89 directly affected historical scholarship on Ming and Qing socioeconomic history. Some PRC scholars were able to travel abroad, others met foreign specialists at international conferences held in China, and many more were introduced to foreign scholarship through Chinese translations of articles and books published in Taiwan, Japan, Europe, and North America. Foreign scholars, also, profited from new access to archival sources for research; a few anthropologists and historians even were able to reside in the countryside and interview villagers. While increased access and scholarly exchange have enriched research, they have not erased national differences in interpretation and approach.Keywords
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