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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
