Full Description
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.
Also available in paperback.
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
