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An historical sketch of Chinese historiography
Title:
An historical sketch of Chinese historiography

China academic library

China academic library.
Author:
Wu, Huaiqi, author.
ISBN:
9783662562529
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Physical Description:
vii, 503 pages ; 25 cm.
Series:
China academic library

China academic library.
Contents:
1. Introduction. 1. National Culture and Ideas of History ; 2. Ideas of History and History of Ideas of History ; References -- 2. Research Questions. 1. Tongbian, or Thorough Understanding of Changes in Entire History ; 2. The Idea That History Teaches Present-Day People Lessons Worthy of Attention ; 3. The Idea That History Can Be Used to Better the Statecraft ; 4. The Dual Nature of Chinese Historiography ; 5. The Historical Scholarship and Methodology Pertaining to Chinese Historians ; 6. What Is History? An Answer Given by the Chinese National History ; 7. The Scientific Nature of History ; References -- 3. Ideas of History in Pre-Imperial China. 1. The Intellectual Growth from Primitive Historical Consciousness to Idea of History ; 2. The Historical Consciousness Buried Beneath the Assertion That All Six Confucian Classics are Unexceptionally History ; 3. Contentions in Historical Perspective Among Variegated Intellectual Schools in Pre-Imperial China ; References --

4. Ideas of history in the Medieval China: Shiji, or The Grand Scribe's Historical Records, and Hanshu, or history of former Han Dynasty. 1. Shiji, or The Grand Scribe's Historical Records: A Historian's Statement of an Intellectual School ; 2. Hanshu: The Paradigm of Zhengshi, or the Formal, Standard and Orthodox History, and the National Spirit ; References -- 5. Medieval Ideas of History, Confucianism, and the Mysterious Learning. 1. Changes in Studies in Confucian Classics and the Rise of Mysterious Learning ; 2. The Relationship Between Heaven and Man in Hanji and the Five Treatises ; 3. The Idea of History and Comments on Historical Figures in Sanguo Zhi, or Records of The Three Kingdoms ; 4. Yuan Hong: Fusing History with Xuanxue and Hou Han Ji ; 5. "Lun" (Remarks) and "Zan" (Eulogies) in Hou Han Shu and Fan Ye's Idea of History ; 6. The Ideologico-Theoretical Elaborations of Ethnic Groups, Religious Sects and Mighty Families in the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties ; References -- 6. A Medieval Conclusion of History and Ideas of History. 1. The General Intellectual Trend in the Conclusion of History ; 2. Reexamining Past Historiography: "Shizhuan" in Wenxin Diaolong, "Jingji Zhi" in Suishu, and Shitong ; 3. Conclusion of History ; References --

7. Lixue, or the Learning of Principle, and Ideas of History. 1. The Interactions of Lixue and History ; 2. The Theory of Heavenly Principle and Insight into Prosperity and Decline in the Historical Perspective ; 3. Orthodoxy and Historiography ; 4. The Idea of Vicissitudes in the Historical Perspective ; 5. The Utilitarian Learning and Learning Aspiring to be Conducive to the Statecraft ; 6. The Historical Criticism and Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi ; References -- 8. Ideas of History in Ming and Qing Dynasties: Historical Criticism and Aspirations to Change. 1. Ideas of History During the Ming-Qing Transition ; 2. The Historiographical Aspiration to Change and Wenshi Tongyi ; 3. The Historico-Historiographical Review and Textual Criticism in the Historiographical Perspective ; Reference -- 9. Ideas of History in Modern China. 1. The Patriotic Historical Thinking Aspiring to Saving the Country ; 2. The New History ; 3. The Historical Materialism and the Chinese Idea of History ; 4. Ideas of History in New China ; References -- 10. Globalization and the Chinese Ideas of History. 1. Globalization and What Lies Ahead for History ; 2. Differences Existing Between Globalization and the Historical Growth ; 3. Globalization and New Research Perspectives ; References -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their philosophical foundations, their development over three thousand years and their influence on the intelligentsia. China is a country defined in terms of its history and its historians have worked hard to record the past. However, this book approaches Chinese history from the very beginning not only as a way of recording, but also as a way of dealing with the past in order to orient the people of the present in the temporal dimension of their lives. This book was listed as the key textbook of the "Eleventh Five-year Plan" for college students in China.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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