Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters : : An interdisciplinary Dialogue / / Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Maissen, Thomas,; Mittler, Barbara,
• MitwirkendeR: Banerjee, Milinda,; Maissen, Thomas,; Meurer, Sebastian,; Mittler, Barbara,; Richter, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 238 p.)

Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, periodization schemes invariably reveal specific social and cultural predispositions.Our dialogue, which brin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Series editors’ note
• Prologue
• Periodization in a global context
• Introduction
• Epochal changes in a global context – Toward a History-in-common
• Defining epochs in global history – Can we write a History-in-common without shared concepts?
• Part I. Periodization
• Europe: Secularizing teleological models
• China: Engendering teleological models
• Part II .Renaissances
• The view from Europe: The Renaissance
• The view from China: r/Renaissances
• Conclusion
• The Renaissance and the rise of the West
• Renaissance-in-common? History-as-dialogue
• Epilogue
• Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters: Conflicting approaches to periodization
• Appendix
• Sources from the European Renaissance
• Sources from the Chinese Renaissance
• Acknowledgements
• Works cited
• Index of names and places