A "rustic" talent awakens to his times -- Choosing his own road -- Commitment to Ming history -- Writing the 'new history' -- Waves from May Fourth -- Social history for the present -- Wartime university: from history to politics -- Academics and activism -- Historian as radical -- Toward a new China: a decision made -- Founding new China: changing a life -- The last chapter: from politics to history.
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Drawing on extensive interviews in China, this biography of the life and times of a key Chinese intellectual, known in China as a major twentieth-century historian and democratic movement participant who cooperated with Communist leaders in the formative.