The Challenge of Linear Time - Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia

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.

About the author

Viren Murthy, (Ph.D. 2007, University of Chicago), Assistant Professor in Transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in Chinese and Japanese intellectual history and is especially interested in the critique of capitalist modernity and imagining Asian identity.

Axel Schneider, (Ph.D. 1994, Bochum University), is Professor of Modern Sinology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes in modern Chinese intellectual history, especially the history of historical writing and historical thinking.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9789004260139
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26013-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Leiden Comparative Historiogra
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works