The challenge of linear time : : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia / / edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider.
The papers collected in this volume congeal around a debate about the ways and extent of the dominance of linear time and progressive history and the concomitant delineation of the nation in Chinese and Japanese historiography. As China and Japan entered the global capitalist system of nation states...
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| Superior document: | Leiden series in comparative historiography, volume 7 |
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| 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 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.