Title The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia / edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) Series Leiden series in comparative historiography, 1574-4493 ; volume 7 Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 7. Contents Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo Summary The papers collected in this volume, although dealing with several different themes, 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd Subject Historiography -- Political aspects -- China Historiography -- Political aspects -- Japan Time -- Political aspects -- China Time -- Political aspects -- Japan Nationalism -- China Nationalism -- Japan HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Historiography Historiography -- Political aspects Intellectual life Nationalism Time -- Political aspects Geschichtsschreibung Nationenbildung SUBJECT China -- Historiography Japan -- Historiography China -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024144 Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069535 Subject China Japan China Form Electronic book Author Murthy, Viren, editor, author Schneider, Axel, editor, author ISBN 9781306189071 1306189071 9789004260146 9004260145

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