Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it.In search of a more effective approach to r...

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Main Author: Li, Huaiyin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2012]
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Summary:In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it.In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century
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ISBN:9780824837266

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