Is there a Chinese mode of historical thinking? A cross-cultural analysis

History and Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 201-209

  Wang, Q Edward ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67650614378     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00401.x     Document Type: Review

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2. and Margaret Mehl, History and the State in Nineteenth-century Japan (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), 74-80
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10. Cf. Jerome Grieder, Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970)
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12. See also Jöm Rüsen, "Historical Consciousness: Narrative Structure, Moral Education, and Ontogenetic Development," in Theorizing Historical Consciousness, ed. Peter Seixas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 63-85
13. Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973)
14. See Chun-chieh Huang, "'Time' and 'Supertime' in Chinese Historical Thinking"
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16. and Q. Edward Wang, "Time, History and Dao: Zhang Xuecheng and Martin Heidegger," in Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking, ed. Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006), 3-44, 131-156
17. Also see Time and Space in Chinese Culture, ed. Chun-chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995)
18. Quoted in Seixas, ed., Theorizing Historical Consciousness, 8-9
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23. Quoted in On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang, Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), 24
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31. and White, Metahistory, 5-7