Overview

This book examines forms of Chinese historical production happening outside the mainstream of academic history, through such new measures as the publication of textbooks, the writing of local history, the preservation of archival materials, and government attempts to establish orthodox historical accounts. The book does so in order to broaden the scope of modern Chinese historiography, when it focuses primarily on a small group of writers such as Liang Qichao, Gu Jiegang, and Fu Sinian. Directly linking historical writings to the formation of the nation, the justification of elite authority, and the cultivation of active citizenry, this book shows that historiography is essential to understanding the uniqueness of Chinese modernity. Originally published in hardcover.

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Author:   Tze-ki Hon ,  Robert Culp
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.543kg
ISBN:  

9789004226746

ISBN 10:   9004226745
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   23 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Fan-sen Wang List of Contributors Introduction Tze-ki Hon and Robert J. Culp PART ONE: THE NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM AND NEW EDUCATED ELITE The New Schools and National Identity: Chinese History Textbooks in the Late Qing Peter Zarrow Classifying Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Late Qing Native-place Textbooks and Gazetteers May-bo Ching Educating the Citizens: Visions of China in Late Qing History Textbooks Tze-ki Hon PART TWO: GENERAL HISTORY AND WORLD HISTORY Discontinuous Continuity: The Beginnings of a New Synthesis of “General History” in 20th-Century China Mary G. Mazur Zhang Yinlin’s Early China Brian Moloughney Contending Memories of the Nation: History Education in Wartime China, 1937-1945 Wai-keung Chan “Weak and Small Peoples” in a “Europeanizing World”: World History Textbooks and Chinese Intellectuals’ Perspectives on Global Modernity Robert J. Culp PART THREE: NATIONAL HISTORY AND ITS CHALLENGES Archives at the Margins: Luo Zhenyu’s Qing Documents and Nationalism in Republican China Shana J. Brown How to Remember the Qing Dynasty: The Case of Meng Sen Madeleine Yue Dong Liberalism and Nationalism at a Crossroads: The Guomindang’s Educational Policies, 1927-1930 Chiu-chun Lee Index

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Tze-ki Hon, Ph.D. (1992) in History, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York-Geneseo. His research interests cover both pre-modern and modern China. His book, Yijing and the Chinese Politics (SUNY Press, 2005) examines the Yijing commentaries of the Northern Song period. He is an editor of a volume on the May-Fourth New Culture paradigm. Currently, he is completing a book on the Guocui xuebao (1905-1912). Robert J. Culp, Ph.D. (1999) in History, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bard College. His first book is Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (Cambridge, MA, forthcoming 2007). His current work focuses on publishing and cultural production in early 20th-century China.

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