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As historians, Paul A. Cohen argues, our aim is to do our utmost to understand and elucidate past reality. At the same time, in pursuit of this goal, we must use ordering concepts that inevitably introduce an element of distortion.1
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Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past, 2nd paperback edn. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), preface, pp. ix–xxvii.
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Taveirne, P.M.W. (2014). Writing the History of the Catholic Church in China: Historiography, 1900-Present. In: Chu, C.Yy. (eds) Catholicism in China, 1900-Present. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353658_2
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