The defining character of Chinese historical thinking

History and Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-188

  Huang, Chun Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 61149588036     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00398.x     Document Type: Review

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5. "This book is more than a book;-it is myself. That is the reason it belongs to you. Yes, it is myself; and, I may venture to affirm, it is you also. All our various works have sprung from the same living root. - The sentiment of France, and the idea of our country." See The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present, ed. Fritz Stern (New York: Meridian Books, 1956), 109.
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9. Sima Qian quibbled, after reviewing the records of the noble men who had vanished, "All these men had a rankling in their hearts, for they were not able to accomplish what they wished. Therefore they wrote of past affairs in order to pass on their thoughts to future generations." See Sources of Chinese Tradition, ed. William Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), I, 372.
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15. Cf. Yü Ying-shih, "Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking," in Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate, ed. .Törn Rüsen (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002), 152-172, especially 161.
16. Confucius, The Analects, transl. D. C. Lau (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1992), Book IX, chapter 17, p. 81.
17. Chen Ziang "Deng Youjiutai ge" (Song on Mounting the Youzhou Tower) in Quan Tangshi guangxuan xinzhu jiping (New Commentaries on the Complete Tang Poetry) (Liaoning: Liaoning renmin chubanshe, 2001), I, 508.
18. Sima Qian, "Biographies of Li Sheng and Lu Jia," in Shiji (Taipei: Taishun Bookstore Photoreproduction of new punctuated edition), p. 2699.
19. See my "The Ch'in Unification (221 BC) in Chinese Historiography," in Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-cultural Perspective, ed. Q. Edward Wang and Georg G. Iggers (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002), 31-44.
20. Qian Mu, Guoshi Dagang (An Outline of the National History), in Qian Binsi xiansheng quanji, vol. 27, pp. 29-30.
21. Liu Xiang Shuoyuan (Collection of Discourses) (Taipei: Shangwu yinshuguan: photo reproduction of the Sibu congkan chubian suoben edition, 1965), juan 11, p. 51.
22. Gao Heng, Zhouyi Dazhuan jinzhu (Jinan: Jilu shushe, 1979), juan 5, pp. 558-559.
23. Mencius, transl. Lau, Book4:B, 261-263.
24. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, transl. Burton Watson (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1968), chapter 2
25. "Discussion on Making All Things Equal," 36-49, esp. 40-41.
26. Cf. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We. Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 3-13.