The Emergence of Modern Historical Consciousness in China: From Sorting Out the National History to Reconstructing Civilization
Written by Wang Qingjia
Century Wenjing丨Shanghai People's Publishing House
◆ Introduction:
"The Emergence of Modern Chinese Historical Consciousness" is a collection of 16 discussions on the history of Chinese historiography by the famous historian Wang Qingjia, focusing on the transition period of modern Chinese historiography in the 20th century. In addition to classic topics such as antiquity, scientific historiography, postcolonialism, and postmodernism, the author also places the study of Chinese history in the context of global historiography for horizontal comparison, or proposes new solutions to old problems with new research methods. The book is divided into two parts, the first part, "Trends of Thought and Characteristics", discusses the overall turn and development trend of Chinese historiography in the 20th century, and the second part, "People and Thoughts", focuses on many famous scholars and schools of thought in modern times, and puts forward the author's unique views.
◆ Editor's Choice:
Wang Qingjia, an expert in the history of international historiography, a collection of research achievements in the history of Chinese historiography
A global perspective on the transformation of modern Chinese historiography
The emergence of modern historical consciousness by the famous school of thought
Is there a meta-narrative in Chinese history?
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement, what kind of division and evolution did modern historiography undergo? What impact have postcolonial and postmodern trends had on historiography?
From the general history works imported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the new history textbooks compiled by Liu Shipei, Xia Zengyou, and Liu Yizheng, what impact did the changes in historical writing in the early 20th century have on the concept of Chinese people?
What are the secrets of the exchanges and relationships between Hu Shi and He Bingsong, Chen Yinke and Fu Sinian, Qian Mu and Gu Jiegang, and the masters of history?
◆ About the Author:
Wang Qingjia
He is a professor of history at Rowan University, a professor of Changjiang Chair at Peking University (2007-present), and a member of the International Committee on the History and Theory of Historiography (concurrently serving as secretary-general from 2005 to 2015). His major works include A History of Global Historiography (co-authored with Georg Eagles and Supria Mukhgi), Chopsticks: Food and Culture, History of Foreign Historiography (co-authored with Li Longguo), and Western Conception of History: From Ancient Greece to Modern Times.
◆ Catalog:
preface
Part I: Trends and Characteristics
01 History and History of Historiography
02 Characteristics of Ancient Chinese Historiography from a Comparative Perspective
03 Meta-Narrative of Chinese Historiography: Examining the Implications of Orthodoxy with the Theory of "Cultural China".
04 From Sorting Out the National History to Reconstructing Civilization: The Modern Significance of Historiography Innovation in the May Fourth Period
05 Chinese Historiography in the 20th Century and the West: On the Emergence of Modern Historical Consciousness
06 On the Directional Turning Point of Chinese Historiography in the 20th Century
07 Postcolonialism and Chinese Historiography
08 Postmodernism and the Prospects of Chinese Historiography
Part II: People and Thoughts
09 Virtues, Roles, and Ethos: A New Perspective on the Changes in Academic Thought from the Late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement
10 The Western "Style" of Chinese Historiography: A New History Textbook and a Change in the View of Modern Chinese History
11 A comparative study of Hu Shi and He Bingsong
12 Gu Jiegang and Contemporary Chinese Historiography
13 What is the history of science? What is "scientific antiquity"? ——A new exploration of the ideological origin of Fu Sinian's "historiography is historiography".
14 The Relationship between Qian Mu and the Historiography of Science (1926-1950)
15 Chen Yinke's concept of "body and use" and his research on the history of the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties
16 The relationship between Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, and others: Centered on the archives seen by the "Academia Sinica" in Taiwan