World History and National Identity in China - The Twentieth Century

Xin Fan utilizes a variety of archival sources to tell the story of four generations of Chinese historians who created the field of world history in China over the course of the twentieth century, and offers a long-term view of the rise of nationalism in China today.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Control and Resistance: The Social Production of World History under the Influence of Radical Politics; 1. The Confucian Legacy: World-Historical Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 2. The Cultural Destiny: Nationalism and World History in Republican China; 3. Becoming the "World": World Historians in the Early People's Republic; 4. The Forced Analogy: Control, Resistance, and World History in the 1950s; 5. Imagining Global Antiquity: Continuity, Transformation, and Word History in Post-Mao China; Conclusion: World History and the Value of the Past; List of Characters; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Product details

• Authors: Xin Fan, FAN XIN
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781108842600
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84260-0
• No. of pages: 11000
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History