- List of Figures*
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Beginnings
- 2. Wang Tao: The Problem of Change in the Late Qing
- 3. The Next Step: Discovering History in China
- 4. Discovering History in China: The Backstory
- 5. Limits of the China-Centered Approach
- 6. A Multiplicity of Pasts: History in Three Keys
- 7. History in Three Keys: Research, Writing, and Publishing History
- 8. From the Boxers to King Goujian: Surprise Developments
- 9. The Problem of Insideness versus Outsideness: Speaking to History
- 10. The Power of Story: History and Popular Memory
- 11. Then and Now: The Two Histories
- Appendix: Author’s Publications
- Notes
- Index
- * Figures
- Intro.1. The author as a boy
- 1.1. Fairbank in front of his longtime home in Cambridge
- 1.2. Benjamin Schwartz
- 1.3. Fairbank teaching in his Widener Library study
- 1.4. John Israel and Lloyd Eastman, two fellow graduate students at Harvard, enjoying themselves in a Taiwan restaurant, 1961
- 1.5. My daughter Joanna in a pedicab, which took her to and from nursery school (Taipei, 1961)
- 1.6. With friend singing in a Taiwan restaurant, 1961
- 1.7. With Jonathan Mirsky performing in Chinese play, Taipei, 1961
- 2.1. Wang Tao
- 3.1. Philip Kuhn
- 4.1. With Lin Tongqi
- 6.1. The Battle of Tianjin
- 7.1. With Wang Xi, Shanghai, November 2003
- 7.2. Giving a talk in Shanghai, November 2003
- 7.3. With Lu Yao in Ji’nan, October 2011
- 7.4. Boxers setting fire to a church
- 7.5. Boxer leader Cao Futian in the Battle of Tianjin
- 8.1. Yang Jiachang, “The busy men of May”
- 8.2. The pain of national humiliation
- 8.3. Shameless Chinese submit to foreigners, July 1900
- 8.4. Me and Leo Lee clowning around in a Hong Kong restaurant
- 8.5. With Jeff Wasserstrom and Ian Johnson at breakfast in a Hong Kong hotel (November 2017)
- 9.1. Goujian sampling Fuchai’s stool
- 9.2. Graphic depiction of “sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall”
- 9.3. Advertisement for Golden Dragon (Jinlong) cigarettes
- 9.4. Illustrated chart of national humiliation
- 9.5. Banner at Houshan Scenic Area entrance announcing the added attraction created by the set from the TV film Yue wang Goujian, Shaoxing
- 9.6. Wall painting of Goujian at King of Yue Temple (Yue wang dian), Shaoxing
- 10.1. With Chris Munn in the University of Hong Kong Senior Common Room (November 2017)
- 10.2. Drawing of Petar Petrović Njegoš (1813–51), artist unknown
- 10.3. Joan of Arc in full armor astride her horse, engraving by Léonard Gaultier (1612)
- 11.1. With my four children at the ninetieth birthday party of my sister Barbara in New York City (September 2017)
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