Seeing history : public history in China:

When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely...

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Main Author: Li, Na (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2024]
Series:Public history in international perspective 3
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Online Access:DE-1043
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Summary:When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely presenting a change in the patterns of participation in history-making. This book offers a sharply different view. It contends, essentially, that public history represents more than a research domain within history or within any existing discipline, nor does it fit into any established narratives, but rather, a fundamental change of the entire process of history-making in China. In this process, the public is prosuming history. Public history makes obsolete the old structure for building and acquiring historical knowledge: it challenges the old assumptions, supersedes the rigid academic hierarchy, and stirs the imaginations of the multitudes. With an assemblage of case studies, this work makes a case for a system view of public history making, or public history(ing), and launches a concept, complex public history, i.e. public history(ing) as complex adaptive systems
Item Description:Bibliographie: Seite 271-286
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 289 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9783110983098
DOI:10.1515/9783110983098

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