Chinese Historical Thinking : an Intercultural Discussion.
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find?second thought? by three other international scholars, and at the end the whole discussion...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gottingen :
V & R Unipress,
2015.
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| Series: | Global East Asia.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Foreword; Huang Chun-chieh and Jörn Rüsen: Introduction; I. Presentations; Huang Chun-chieh: 1. Historical Discourses in Traditional Chinese Historical Writings: Historiography as Philosophy; 1. Introduction; 2. The Evolution of the Relationship between Events and Principle in Traditional Chinese Historical Writing; 3. The Use of History (1): From Particular to Universal; 4. The Use of History (2): Synthesizing Factual Judgment with Moral Judgment; 5. Conclusion.
- Huang Chun-chieh: 2. Historical Thinking as Humanistic Thinking in Traditional China1. Introduction; 2. Humanisim as Manifested in Chinese Historical Thinking (1): Anthropo-centric Explanation / Interpretation of History; 3. Humanism as Manifested in Chinese Historical Thinking (2): Affirmation of the Free Will of Man in History; 4. Humanism as Manifested in Chinese Historical Thinking (3): Historiography as Statecraft; 5. Humanism as Manifested in Chinese Historical Thinking (4): Preserving Factuality; 6. Conclusion.
- Wong Young-tsu: 3. Humanism in Traditional Chinese Historiography
- With Special Reference to the Grand Historian Sima Qian1. Introduction; 2. A Biographical Approach to History; 3. A Humanistic View of War; 4. The Exposition of Inhumanity; 5. Conclusion; Hu Chang-Tze: 4. On the Transformation of Historical Thinking in Modern China; 1. Exemplary Historical Thinking and Plural Semantics; 2. The Theory of Exemplary Historical Thinking
- Zhang Xuecheng; 2.1. Zhang Xuecheng's Comments on the History of Historiography; 2.2. Objectivity Theory and Agency.
- 3. The Loss of Historical Significance and the Emergence of a New Historical Thinking3.1. Kang Youwei's Philosophization of History
- the Concept of a Holistic History Emerges; 3.2. "Impure" Exemplary Historical Thinking; 3.3. An Anti-Critique of the May Forth Movement and of Traditionalist Criticism; 4. Evolutionary Historical Thinking: Qian Mu's Outline of National History; 4.1. The Driving Force behind the Development of National History; 4.2. A Qualitative Change in Style; 5. Closing Words; II. Comments.
- Achim Mittag: 5. Cultural Differences as an Inspirational Source of Historical Knowledge
- Random Notes on Three Approaches to Chinese Comparative Historiography(1); (2); (3); (4); (5); (6); Fritz-Heiner Mutschler: 6. Ancient Historiographies Compared; 1. Introduction; 2. Preserving Factuality; 3. Role of Man in History
- Narrative Form; 4. The Integration of Historical Insight and Moral Evaluation; 5. War and Peace; 6. Conclusion; Peter Burke: 7. Two Traditions of Historiography; I; II; III; Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer: 8. Humanistic Tradition and the Concept of a "National History" in China.
