Inventing China Through History
Subtitle: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791447321
Subjects: Asian studies; 20th century; History: World; Historiography; History - General History; China; Asia - China; History
Description: "This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong, Fu Sinian, Yao Congwu, and Chen Yinke. Buoyed by the quest for "Mr. Science" and "Mr.

Democracy" during the May Fourth Movement of 1919, these historians searched for a scientific presentation of China's national past, inspired by the Western and Japanese practice of scientific history. Their efforts to bridge the perceived gap between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, past and present, created a new, scientific model of history in China. The book also discusses the significance of this historiographical experience in late-twentieth-century China and Taiwan."--BOOK JACKET.