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Men of history sometimes make history. The distinguished career of C. Martin Wilbur, who spent twenty-nine years as Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, illustrates this point. Based on journals, letters, and other records, and richly illustrated with photographs from the author's private collection, China in My Life is the autobiographical account of a scholar-teacher who devoted his career to the study of Chinese history and the promotion of Asian studies in America. Over the course of sixty years, starting with his early years in China in the 1920s and 1930s, Wilbur reflects on and details the growth of an academic discipline in this country as well as vast changes in the Asian historical landscape, including developments in Japan and Taiwan over a thirty-five-year period, conditions in Korea, Hong Kong, India, Burma, and Thailand in the 1950s, and the situation in the People's Republic of China in the 1980s. During his career, Wilbur was also the curator of Chinese Archaeology and Ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum, a member of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, and an adviser in war-torn China. China in My Life is that rare event in which the autobiographical words of a distinguished scholar lend immediacy to the great historical events of his lifetime.
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Kaye Steeno
reviewed China in My Life An Historian's Own History on June 13, 2017
China in My Life An Historian's Own History
Kind of a slog to read here and there but interesting nonetheless. I had no idea that all those "Shakespeare plays for youth" in my school library could be considered to be bowdlerized. I even had a set of Shakespeare's works written in prose for the younger set which were half illustrations. Never thought twice about it.
His chapter on Chaucer and how his Canterbury Tales were censored over the centuries, even up to the twentieth century, was intriguing. I took a high school elective course on The Canterbury Tales way back in high school, taught by a woman who was going for her PhD on Chaucer at the University of Pennsylvania. The stories were enjoyable but I certainly don't recall any passages that could remotely be considered racy. Now I'm going to have to order an annotated and UNexpurgated edition to read to see what all the fuss was about (beyond the few passages Perrin shares in his book). The trick will be to identify which edition hasn't been gutted.
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