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Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography
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Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography Hardback - 2000

by Q. Edward Wang

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A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.

This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong, Fu Sinian, Yao Congwu, and Chen Yinke. Buoyed by the quest for "Mr. Science" and "Mr. Democracy" during the May Fourth Movement of 1919, these historians searched for a scientific presentation of China's national past, inspired by the Western and Japanese practice of scientific history. Their efforts to bridge the perceived gap between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, past and present, created a new, scientific model of history in China. The book also discusses the significance of this historiographical experience in late-twentieth-century China and Taiwan.

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  • Title Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography
  • Author Q. Edward Wang
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Text is Free of
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
  • Publication date November 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • ISBN 9780791447314 / 0791447316
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00020626
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.007

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2001, Page 1325
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 35

About the author

Q. Edward Wang is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University.

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