Reinventing Modern China : : Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing /

Reinventing Modern China : : Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing / / Huaiyin Li.

This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Li, Huaiyin,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Origins of the Modernization Narrative: Nationalist Historiography Before 1949
  • 3. Origins of the Revolutionary Narrative: Marxist Historiography Before 1949
  • 4. The Making of a New Orthodoxy: Marxist Historiography in the 1950s
  • 5. Between the Past and the Present: The Radicalization of Historiography Under Mao
  • 6. Challenging the Revolutionary Orthodoxy: "New Enlightenment" Historiography in the 1980s
  • 7. From Revolution to Modernization: The Paradigmatic Transition in Reform Era Historiography
  • 8. Master Narratives in Crisis
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index

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