Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography – serie
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Remapping the Past
Fictions of History in Deng’s China, 1979-1997
Av Howard Choy
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping’s reform era undermined the grand narrative of …
Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan
The Resistance of Consciousness
Av Viren Murthy
Inbunden, 2011
2518 kr
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Zhang Taiyan (1868-1936) is famous for being one of the first thinkers in China to promote revolution in the early twentieth century. Scholars have addressed Zhang’s revolutionary and nationalist thought, but until this work there has not been any sustained engagement with Zhang’s Buddhist writings …
Places of Memory in Modern China
History, Politics, and Identity
Inbunden, 2011
2563 kr
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In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on the rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Nora’s approach of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) to the Chinese context. The volume assembles a …
Revolution as Restoration
Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911
Av Tze-ki Hon
Inbunden, 2013
2069 kr
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Revolution as Restoration examines the journal Guocui xuebao (1905-1911) to elucidate the momentous political and social changes in early twentieth-century China. Rather than viewing the journal as a collection of documents for studying a thinker (e.g., Zhang Taiyan), a concept (e.g., national …
Challenge of Linear Time
Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia
Inbunden, 2013
2476 kr
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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 …
Broken Narratives
Post-Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia
Inbunden, 2014
2593 kr
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The end of the Cold War reshuffled the power relations between former friends and enemies. In Broken Narratives the contributors offer an account of the consequences of the end of the Cold War for the (re-)telling of history in film, literature and academic historiography in Europe and East Asia. …
Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts
Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines
Inbunden, 2016
2505 kr
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The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay …
Nation and Ethnicity
Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)
Inbunden, 2017
3492 kr
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Winner of the Foundation Council Award of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen Public Law Foundation in the category of “Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists”, 2017. In Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider …
'Global' and the 'Local' in Early Modern and Modern East Asia
Inbunden, 2017
2069 kr
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The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton …
Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan
A Global Perspective, 1606-2018
Inbunden, 2020
4083 kr
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Roger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there …
Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949
Av Thomas Fröhlich, Axel Schneider
Inbunden, 2020
2794 kr
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Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these discourses play a pivotal …
China and Global History
Entangled Histories and Historiographies Since the Late Qing (1840s–Present)
Inbunden, 2026
2271 kr
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This volume bridges the fields of Sinology and China Studies with Global History to explore the development of historical thinking in the Chinese context and China’s global political and intellectual entanglements. The book addresses two key questions: how global historiographical writing developed …
