

“Boxers, Christians, and the Gods: The Boxer Conflict of 1900 as a Religious War,” in Vincent Goossaert, ed., CRITICAL READINGS ON RELIGIONS OF CHINA, 4 vols.Over the past quarter-century, Department of Public Administration of Renmin University of China, as an organization for cultivation of management personnel, academic research and policy consulting service under the background of China’s reform and opening-up and continual reform of government, always adheres to the mission of “following up the development of public administration theory, consolidating the foundation of discipline theory paying attention to the practice of public administration in China and holding the pulse of the development of times for Chinese government giving response to the practical problems of public management and expanding the new fields in public administration research improving the overall ability of human resources department and enhancing the influence of the discipline” all fellows of the Department are devoted to the construction of public administration discourse system having the native importance according to the reform demands of Chinese government and based on the systematic understanding of universal knowledge about public administration.The Power of Story and Popular Memory: Six Countries in Crisis (Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2017).Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) (paperback ed.

China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997) (paperback ed., 1998) (PRC Chinese translation published by Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe, Nanjing, 2000).Fairbank Remembered, cocompiled with Merle Goldman (Cambridge, Mass.:Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1992) (PRC Chinese translation published by Dongfang Chuban Zhongxin, Shanghai, 2000).Schwartz, coedited with Merle Goldman (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1990) Ideas Across Cultures: Essays on Chinese Thought in Honor of Benjamin I.(Japanese translation published by Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1988 PRC Chinese translation published by Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 1989 expanded edition published by Zhonghua in 2005 two different Taiwan Chinese translations, one published by Daoxiang Publishing Co., Taibei, 1991, the other by Lianjing Publishing Co., Taibei, 1991 Korean translation published by Sansae Publishing Co., Seoul, 2003) with new preface copyrighted by author, 1996 reissued in 2010 with new introduction copyrighted by author, 2010). Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984) (paperback ed., 1985 second paperback ed.Report on the Young American Political Leaders Delegation to the People’s Republic of China, (New York: National Committee on United States-China Relations, 1977) (2nd printing, January 1978).Schrecker (Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1976) (2nd printing, 1979) Reform in Nineteenth-Century China, coedited with John E.Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T’ao and Reform in Late Ch’ing China, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974) (paperback reprint, with new preface, by Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1987) (PRC Chinese translation published by Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe, Nanjing, 1994).China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963) (2nd printing, 1967 3rd printing, 1977).It was like going to college again in my retirement.” In working on this book, Professor Cohen says, “I made two discoveries: first, a book that doesn’t focus mainly on China takes a lot less time to write, and, second, there was a whole world out there that I knew next to nothing about. His recent publications include History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis (Columbia University Press, 2014), which contains chapters on Serbia, Palestine/Israel, China, France, the USSR, and England. He has been affiliated with the Fairbank Center since 1965, and he continues to research and write in the field of Chinese history, focusing mainly on the period from the nineteenth century to the present. Cohen (柯文) retired from Wellesley College in 2000 after teaching Chinese history for 35 years.
