{"id":99,"date":"2006-03-22T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/03\/denis-twitchett-and-the-cambridge-histories\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:44","slug":"denis-twitchett-and-the-cambridge-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/03\/denis-twitchett-and-the-cambridge-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a xhref=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S14\/30\/36M61\/index.xml?section=topstories\">Denis Twitchett<\/a>, author of the groundbreaking <i>Financial Administration Under the T&#8217;ang Dynasty<\/i> and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History series for China and Japan, has passed away. [<a xhref=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/23144.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge History series has sometimes struck me as an odd duck sort of publication &#8212; I think I&#8217;m channeling one of Berry&#8217;s reviews here &#8212; a mix of &#8220;state of the art&#8221; and &#8220;timeless reference&#8221; which never quite succeeded at either. But they remain very powerful tools for students, especially graduate students, in getting a baseline on a period or a topic. They remain particularly useful, I think, as syntheses of material and findings that is otherwise only found in monographs, because most of it hasn&#8217;t been integrated into most textbooks on Asia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had very good luck assigning the chapters &#8212; the Japan histories, anyway &#8212; to undergraduate classes, but they have been good for students doing research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T&#8217;ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History series for China and Japan, has passed away. [via] The Cambridge History series has sometimes struck me as an odd duck sort of publication &#8212; I think I&#8217;m channeling one of Berry&#8217;s reviews here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,165,102,119,126,129,63,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-china","category-china-japan","category-english","category-general","category-historiography","category-japan","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}