Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology : : Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective / / edited by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Achim Mittag, Jörn Rüsen.

• Superior document: Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Mittag, Achim,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (515 p.)
• Notes: Proceedings of the third and last meeting of the conference series "Chinese historiography and historical culture from a comparative perspective" held Oct. 4-6, 2001, at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.

Three issues essential to our insight into the concept and function of historical consciousness, and the description thereof, form the core of this book: historical truth, historical comment and criticism, and ideology (including the historian's trustworthiness). Taking as a point of departure the workings of these concepts in Chinese historical thinking, the volume carefully draws comparisons with similar topics in the Western tradition. It thus advocates and shows a truly comparative approach that sets the stage for an intercultural dialogue on this important subject. The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart.

Table of Contents

Preface (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer); List of Contributors; Religious Claims of Truth versus Critical Method - Some General Remarks on a Complex Relationship in Western Tradition (Petra Bahr); Language Change in Premodern China - Notes on Its Perception and Its Impact on the Idea of a ""Constant Way"" (Wolfgang Behr); Poetry and Religion: The Representation of ""Truth"" in Early Chinese Historiography (Martin Kern); Normativity and History in Warring States Thought. The Shift towards the Anthropological Paradigm (Heiner Roetz); Truth Claims in Shiji (Stephen Durrant)

Why has the Question of Truth Remained an Open Question Throughout Chinese History? (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer)Criteria of Historical Judgment (Jörn Rüsen); Some Notions of Historical Judgment in China and the West (Kai Vogelsang); Platitude and Persona: Junzi Comments in Zuozhuan and Beyond (David Schaberg); Speeches and the Question of Authenticity in Ancient Chinese Historical Records (Yuri Pines); The Past as a Messianic Vision: Historical Thought and Strategies of Sacralization in the Early Gongyang Tradition (Joachim Gentz)

Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi: Testing the Boundary Between Worldly and Otherworldly Facts (Thomas H.C. Lee)PART THREE - AT THE THRESHOLD OF MODERNITY AND BEYOND:HISTORICAL TRUTH, THE HISTORIAN'S TRUSTWORTHINESS,AND IDEOLOGY; The Rise of Historical Criticism and the Process of Professionalization in Historical Studies in Europe - The Case of Germany (Horst Walter Blanke); Ideology and History: Yao Jiheng's Critical Scholarship and the Ideology of New Historical Science (Xin Shixue) (Kai-Wing Chow)

What Makes a Good Historian: Zhang Xuecheng's Postulate of ""Moral Integrity"" (Shi De) Revisited (Achim Mittag)Ideology and Truth Claims in Korean Historiography of the ""Empirist School"" (Marion Eggert); History and Truth in Chinese Marxist Historiography (Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik); Between Normative and Individualizing Didactics: Suzhi Jiaoyu as a New Term in Chinese Theories of History Teaching (Nicola Spakowski); Index of Names