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.
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...
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| Superior document: | Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography ; 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography ;
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| 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. |
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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