Quotes by : Paul A. Cohen

It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily....

Where the Depression years had aroused a deep sense of concern over how American wealth was distributed....

Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don’t simply, in mechanical fashion,....

I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated)....

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are....

Our outsideness, after all, is a major part of what makes us different from the direct participants in....

I hope… that we are making China more interesting and less exotic to our Europeanist colleagues. Soon....

Is it really true... that our aim as historians is in some sense to recapture past reality, “to retrieve....

As historians, our aim is to do our utmost to understand and elucidate past reality. At the same time,....