Wang Tao in a changing world -- Moving beyond "tradition and modernity" -- New perspectives on the Boxers: The view from anthropology -- Boxers, Christians, and the gods: The Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war -- Ambiguities of a watershed date: The 1949 divide in Chinese history -- Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China -- Revisiting discovering history in China -- Three ways of knowing the past

1. China -- History -- 19th century
2. China -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography
3. China -- History -- 20th century
4. China -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography