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Philip A. Kuhn, A Scholarly Appreciation
Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796 -1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970, reprint 1980.
Kuhn, Philip A. "Local Self-Government under the Republic: Problems of Control, Autonomy, and Mobilization." In Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Carolyn Grant. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, 257-98.
Jones, Susan Mann, and Philip A. Kuhn. "Dynastic Decline and the Roots of Rebellion." In The Cambridge History of China, Volume 10: Late Ch' ing, 1800 -1911, Part I, edited by John K. Fairbank, 107-62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Kuhn, Philip A. "The Taiping Rebellion." In The Cambridge History of China, Volume 10: Late Ch' ing, 1800 -1911, Part I, edited by John K. Fairbank, 264-317. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Kuhn, Philip A., John King Fairbank, Beatrice Bartlett, and Yongzhen Chiang. Introduction to Ch' ing Documents. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1986, Rev. ed. 1993.
Min Tu-ki. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. Edited by Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Kuhn, Philip A. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Kuhn, Philip A. Les Origines De L'État Chinois Moderne. Paris: A. Colin, 1999.
Kuhn, Philip A. Origins of the Modern Chinese State. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Kuhn, Philip A. Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
Over the course of his academic career, which lasted nearly forty years, Philip Kuhn shaped the field of Qing history more profoundly than any other scholar of his generation. He did this mainly with his books, each of which opened up new directions of research. He also shaped the field through his teaching, his presence at academic conferences, and his numerous lectures, but here I will concentrate on his major writings. These monographs laid the groundwork for investigation of some of the most significant topics of eighteenth and nineteenth century China, and they continue to guide our studies today.
This is a personal account of the evolution of Kuhn's thinking, from the point of view of a younger colleague. I cannot really count myself...