The challenge of linear time : : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia / / edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider.

• Superior document: Leiden series in comparative historiography, volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Murthy, Viren.; Schneider, Axel.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 pages).

Table of Contents

Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.