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Modern China and Global Futures in C. A. Bayly's Vision of Twentieth-Century History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2019

R. Bin Wong
R. Bin Wong*
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R. Bin Wong (wong@history.ucla.edu) is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA.
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Commenting on Christopher Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 is a bittersweet exercise. My assignment for this forum is to consider Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 from the vantage point of China studies. I will do so by framing my remarks with respect to some of the ways this major South Asia historian took his expertise into larger projects, the last of which is the volume under discussion.

Keywords

Chinahistorical causationhistorical comparisonshistorical connectionspolitical economytwentieth centuryviolencewarworld regions
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Forum—C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015: Interpretations from Asian Studies
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 859 - 868
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 

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