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	Chinese historiography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese historiography refers to the study of methods and assumptions made in studying Chinese history.
		This view of Chinese history sees Chinese society in the 20th century as a traditional society seeking to become modern, usually with the implicit assumption that Western society is the definition of modern society.
		A survey of papers on Chinese history in the early 21st century would reveal relatively little attempt to fit Chinese history into a master paradigm of history as was common in the 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_historiography (2273 words)

	Historiography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historiography can also be taken to mean historical theory or the study of historical writing and memory.
		As a meta-level analysis of descriptions of the past, this third conception can relate to the first two in that the analysis usually focuses on the narratives, interpretations, worldview, use of evidence, or method of presentation of other historians.
		Modern historiography started with Ranke in the 19th century, who was very critical on the sources used in history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historiography (1477 words)

	History and Historiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chinese culture is known among the high cultures of the world as extremely historically minded.
		Since the seventh century of our time, historiography has been institutionalized with historians keeping track of what was going on in the present as well as writing the official histories of the dynasty that had preceded the present one.
		But while this helps us to understand Chinese history in great detail, we have to keep in mind that most of the sources on the basis of which Chinese history is written are historiographical sources.
	www.lcsc.edu /modchin/history_and_historiography.htm (560 words)

	Chinese historiography: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A survey of papers on Chinese history in the early 21st century would reveal relatively little attempt to fit Chinese history into a master paradigm of history as was common in the 1950s[Click link for more facts about this topic].
		The three kingdoms period (simplified chinese: ; traditional chinese: ; pinyin snguó) is a period in the history...
		Shang dynasty (chinese:) or yin dynasty () (1600 bc - 1046 bc) followed the legendary xia dynasty and preceded the...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_historiography.htm (2448 words)

	IALHI News Service: Modern Chinese Historiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the first symposium addressed Chinese historiography in general, the aim of the second workshop is to focus on the development of modern Chinese historiography and historical thinking and its relation with different types of memory.
		Besides researching individual cases and patterns of interaction between Chinese, Japanese and Western approaches, investigation should proceed to conceptual questions, to an understanding of the specific rationality of methodological debates in China, and to an understanding of how aware historians were of the necessity to make their methods explicit.
		Official historiography is a form of history writing which excludes personal and collective memories from presentation in the historical text.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0004_6.html (911 words)

	Q. Edward Wang \| Encountering the World: China and Its Other(s) in Historical Narratives, 1949–89 \| Journal of ...
		The Chinese experimentation of modern historiography, defined by and large by the experience of Euro-American historians of the late nineteenth century, was closely associated with their country's experience in encountering with the West from the mid-nineteenth century onward.
		In comparing Chinese and Western historiography in the premodern period, or the pre-Marxist period, Qi Sihe for instance was able to point out both differences and similarities, whereas Geng Danru simply characterized non-Marxist works in the West as the antithesis of Marxist historiography.
		The West and Western historiography were evoked as the lowercase other, or a better self, to aid their criticism of the authoritarian government at home and, more importantly, of the cultural legacy that sustained authoritarianism in China's long past.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/14.3/wang.html (12061 words)

	Susanne Weigelin-Schwzredzik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the government of the PRC enforcing modernization, the basic pattern of Chinese culture in the mainland is undergoing rapid change.
		This paper is going to discuss the question of whether or not historiography is still occupying the central position in Chinese culture Yves Chevrier is talking about when he says with regard to traditional Chinese historiography that it is at the center of the discourse on politics and morale in China.
		The authors of these books are not necessarily professional historians but with them combining journalism, literature and historiography in order to write the true story of what has been going on in the PRC they might exert a bigger influence on the public than academic historiography.
	www.lcsc.edu /hstcc/susanneab.htm (263 words)

	Session 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the field of Chinese study has made considerable headway moving away from a Western-centered approach, the paper will address the question of whether a "China-centered" approach is obtainable from the vantage points of both Western and Chinese historiographies.
		However, in the 1990s, the failure of the 1890s reforms, have come to be seen by some Chinese historians as more the result of ill-advised and overly hasty actions by the leaders of that movement than the traitorous hand of the Empress Dowager and her conservative colleagues.
		These new trends in Chinese historiography appear to stem not only from disillusionment with the old Marxist narrative but also with a major new effort to reconstruct China’s modern identity, and effort that comes as much from trends toward "globalization" as it does with the decline of Marxism-Leninism.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1999abst/china/c-87.htm (823 words)

	Working Papers-Modernity inside Tradition: The Transformation of Historical Consciousness in Modern China
		This modern historiography was also known as "scientific history," exemplified by the works of the great German historians Barthold Niebuhr (1776-1831) and Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886).
		Interestingly enough, it was his fondness for Chinese poetry that prompted Hu to seek improvement and thus launched the well-known "literary revolution." Endorsed by Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) in the famous journal Xin Qingnian (New youth), Hu's "revolution" gained momentum and turned him into a luminary in the New Culture Movement.
		Gu Jiegang, The Autobiography of a Chinese Historian, trans.
	www.indiana.edu /~easc/resources/working_paper/noframe_10c_mod.htm (8692 words)

	AAS Abstracts: China Session 115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This paper argues that Chinese historians consciously departed from traditional historical genres to write new narratives of the past to create cultural identity and national consciousness when the dynastic political form was no longer viable as the distinguishing determinant of the polity.
		An essential premise is that this reordering and re-creation of Chinese history as "general history" paralleled and was a part of the tide of change in historical studies worldwide begun in the late nineteenth century and continued into this century.
		By emphasizing the dialogical relationship between Chinese indigenous needs and foreign influences, Chen reintroduced a spirit of moderation when many of his contemporaries were awash in radicalism and cultural iconoclasm.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1997abst/china/c115.htm (962 words)

	Regions - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Given this, the study of Chinese history writing and the Chinese cultural patterns of remembering the past appear to be especially relevant for a better understanding of the intellectual and cultural traditions of China, and for gaining a deeper insight into the inner machinery of the Chinese traditional world.
		Apart from the intriguing question of what was new in Sung historiography and which new trends developed during this period, the topic of historical identity in the horizon of Sung Chinese people figured prominently in the discussions.
		A central theme of this conference will be the significant fact that Chinese identity is and continues to be deeply rooted in history, which can also be easily seen from the ongoing debates in Mainland China and Taiwan about China's destiny and the prospects for preserving her 'Chineseness' in a rapidly globalizing world.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/16/regions/ea1.html (1219 words)

	historiography
		The recent publications concerning the Chinese Buddhist nuns of the early medieval period are either translations of the single extant collection of biographies of nuns, the Biqiuni zhuan (Lives of Nuns), dating from the early sixth century, or mainly draw their information from this same, undoubtedly unique source.
		Two crucial notions in constructing the past in Chinese religious culture are undoubtedly that of decline (with the accompanying notion of a past Golden Age) or of a fall from grace (with the accompanying notion of a struggle to regain grace or to be saved from the present misery).
		The notion of decline was an essential part of traditional historiography, which assumed that the first ruler(s) of a royal or imperial dynasty received the Mandate of Heaven to rule on account of their moral virtue and other qualities, whereas subsequent rulers at first inherited this charisma, but then gradually lost it.
	sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de /staff/bth/historiography.htm (9811 words)

	The Wen of the When: Contemporary Chinese Historiography - Events - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
		This conference aims to explore the extent to which a new Chinese historiography has emerged over the past few decades, along with the roll-back of state control and the emergence of a market economy.
		The linear, teleological and modern professional historiography associated with the Chinese nation-state and the academic institutions it funds and controls no longer exert the same degree of dominance over the way people approach and interpret the past.
		Engagement with the past is now more varied and more contested, as can be seen, for instance, in new local gazetteers, in film and television as historiography, in the way historians borrow literary modes, in school textbooks, in oral historiography, and in the considerable appeal of biography and autobiography.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /events/2002.12.07-08.html (267 words)

	HIST390 - Chinese Historiography in a Comparative Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The goal of this seminar is to familiarize upper level students with the core concepts of traditional Chinese culture and its appreciation of the historian's craft.
		Students who already have a background in Chinese history, philosophy or literature will find this an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the reasons why past became so important to the definition of self and society in imperial China.
		All participants will be expected to read carefully both Chinese and Western sources about the process through which the scattered remains of the past are fashioned into historical consciousness by one of the oldest civilizations on earth.
	www.wesleyan.edu /wesmaps/course0203/hist390f.htm (312 words)

	ipedia.com: Historiography Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The analysis usually focuses on the narrative, interpretations, worldview, use of e...
		When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians." (The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide by (Harlan-Davidson, 1988), p.
		When another historian argues that the secondary source misuses (or correctly uses) the primary source, we have historiography.
	www.ipedia.com /historiography.html (443 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Art of China - Architecture
		Originally published in Chinese, the work has been the most comprehensive study of Chinese architecture, with emphasis on architectural technology, various techniques of construction, city planning, and garden techniques, with a chapter on design.
		Translated from Chinese, the work is written by an expert on Chinese architecture, documenting the palace, its wooden structures, both interior and exterior views, various halls, buildings, pavilions, and gates.
		In recent years Chinese scholars have begun to write for architectural journals, to reconstruct the history of Chinese gardens, using the surviving or archaeologically excavated sites to interpret the data with relevant literature.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/freersac/chinarct.htm (1664 words)

	Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley
		The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) is the largest and most active research unit within the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS).
		As materials from and about the People's Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party history became plentiful, the reading room was transformed into the Center for Chinese Studies Library and a full-time librarian was hired to build its collection and serve its growing number of faculty, students, and scholar patrons.
		As the Chinese faculty community at Berkeley grew during the 1960's, the mission of the Center expanded to support scholarly activities in the full range of China's historical experience.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /ccs (371 words)

	Amazon.com: Chinese History: A Manual, Revised and Enlarged: Books: Endymion Wilkinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One particularly laudable feature of this book is that where English is employed for terms particular to Chinese culture or history, the Chinese term is given throughout, and the name of texts and sources are always given in Chinese.
		Moreover, romanisation is generally accompanied by Chinese characters, elminating the often frustrating guesswork involved in trying to figure out the characters corresponding to a romanised phrase.
		It is an indispensible guide to the study of Chinese historiography, and constitutes an excellent resource for anyone at all interested in Chinese history.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674002490?v=glance (1120 words)

	Harvard University Press: A Patterned Past
		He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose.
		Rather than being totally accurate accounts, they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day.
		David Schaberg is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SCHPAP.html (172 words)

	Other Chinese Sites
		While there was a paucity of information on Chinese History when I first set out to do the web page, I am happy to report that there are now some excellent sites out there that covers various aspects of Chinese History.
		Chinese Democracy and the Future - various views on the future of Chinese Democracy.
		Chinese Canadian Historical Photo Exhibit - a photo exhitbit about the history of Chinese in Canada since 1858.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/othersites.html (284 words)

	References on the interpretation of Chinese history
		There is an excellent study of American interpretations of modern Chinese history: Paul A. Cohen, _Rediscovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past_ (Columbia University Press, 1984).
		A useful two volume set of historiographical essays (mostly in Chinese but one or two are in English) was published in the late 1980s by the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica under the title _Liushi nian lai de zhongguo jindai shi yanjiu_ (studies of Chinese history in the last sixty years).
		It was one in a series of topical volumes devoted to different subjects (another was concerned with the reforms of Wang Anshi in the Northern Sung), intended for beginning students in the field of Chinese history.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/478.html (685 words)

	Title - Pathfinders - Kresge Library - Oakland University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Who’s Who in Modern China (from the Beginning of the Chinese Republic to the End of 1953).
		Chinese History (to Qing Dynasty) - Includes narrative, maps, images, texts.
		Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library - This is a listing of other sources.
	www.kl.oakland.edu /services/instruction/pathfinders/ChineseHistory.htm (386 words)

	Qingjia Edward WANG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Historiography and Historical Writings in Imperial China, co-authored with On-cho Ng, to be published under contract by the University of Hawaii Press.
		Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, co-edited with Georg Iggers (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002).
		Postmodernism and Historiography: A Chinese-Western Comparison, co-authored with KU Wei-ying (Taipei: Juliu tushu gongsi, 2000), 419 Pp.
	users.rowan.edu /~wangq/CV.htm (636 words)

	UCLA International Institute :: UCLA's David Schaberg Wins Prize for Best Book on Pre-20th Century China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New work on both sides of the Pacific and in Europe is changing the way that the early Chinese past is being related to the history of the world; it's an exciting time.
		But scholars of early Chinese thought and history and UCLA students are not the only people to benefit from Prof.
		Through his research and teaching, David Schaberg is helping many better understand the innovations of early Chinese philosophers and historians as well as the social and intellectual-cultural context in which they worked.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=3512 (1161 words)

	Brief Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In August 1996 we added research exercizes for training students in Chinese historiography that are keyed to specific parts of the Bibliography.
		Theoretically, one will be able to go from English references to Chinese sources, for example, from mention of the Chinese Dynastic Histories ¤G ¤Q ¤ ¥v to the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Institute of History & Philology, electronic versions of the Twenty-five Dynastic Histories themselves.
		Numerous other Chinese collections, such as that at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will presumably be on-line in the not too distant future.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/elman/ClassBib/genintro.html (415 words)

	David Schaberg CV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PhD, Comparative Literature (Chinese, Greek, and Latin literatures, with emphasis on early narrative and the development of historiography).
		1999 "Social Pleasures in Early Chinese Historiography and Philosophy." Contribution to Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, ed., The Limits of Historiography: Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts.
		Spring, 1993 "On the Use of the Shijing in Zuozhuan Narrative." Papers on Chinese Literature 1: 1-20.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/ealc/faculty/dscv.html (459 words)

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