Rewriting Chinese History

Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791482353

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Rewriting Early Chinese Texts by Edward L. Shaughnessy Pdf

Rewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise—indeed "rewrite"—Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of scholars busy for years to come. However, this is by no means the first time China's historical record has needed rewriting. In this book, author Edward L. Shaughnessy explores the issues involved in editing manuscripts, rewriting them, both today and in the past. The book begins with a discussion of the difficulties encountered by modern archaeologists and paleographers working with manuscripts discovered in ancient tombs. The challenges are considerable: these texts are usually written in archaic script on bamboo strips and are typically fragmentary and in disarray. It is not surprising that their new editions often meet with criticism from other scholars. Shaughnessy then moves back in time to consider efforts to reconstitute similar bamboo-strip manuscripts found in the late third century in a tomb in Jixian, Henan. He shows that editors at the time encountered many of the same difficulties faced by modern archaeologists and paleographers, and that the first editions produced by a court-appointed team of editors quickly prompted criticism from other scholars of the time. Shaughnessy concludes with a detailed study of the editing of one of these texts, the Bamboo Annals (Zhushu jinian), arguably the most important manuscript ever discovered in China. Showing how at least two different, competing editions of this text were produced by different editors, and how the differences between them led later scholars to regard the original edition—the only one still extant—as a forgery, Shaughnessy argues for this text's place in the rewriting of early Chinese history.

Author : Thuy Van Ha
Publisher : Nhan Anh Publisher
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989993680

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Rewriting Chinese History by Thuy Van Ha Pdf

Dear friends, You are reading the first few lines of the book that will shake faith and awaken your conscience.So far, not only you but the whole world believe that Westerners bring civilization to China. Then, the Chinese brought civilization down to the Annamite people. Vietnamese language borrows 70% of Chinese. Vietnamese culture is the borrowing of Chinese culture imperfectively.That is the great lie imposed becoming dogma throughout the last century!From the knowledge of the new century, this book will tell you the opposite truth.Thousands of years ago, when most of humanity was still alive in the ice, Vietnamese brought the stone ax - the superior tool of ancient time - to the China. Then also from Vietnam, the next migrants brought rice, millet, chicken breed, dog breed etc to build a brilliant agricultural civilization on the Mainland. Chinese language is born from Vietnamese. The iconography of the Chinese text was created by the Viet people. Y jing, Shi jing, Shu jing etc is also the creativity of the Viet people. If the history of a country is the history of the major population communities that make up that country, then Chinese history is the history of the Viet people who have been living in China.You wonder, you doubt? No wonder many are as skeptical as you! What a moment to overturn the dogmahidden over two thousand years! Yes, two thousand years of pervert! The reason is that in the past, the Vietnamese lost land, lost the written words, it should lose its history. From the owner of the brilliant Oriental civilization, the Vietnamese were deprived of everything to become a bunch of ignorant people have to learn from others. Fortunately, into the new century, human science has illuminated the forgotten past, returning justice to history. The booklet in your hand will be the first lines, the first chapters of every Chinese history book in the future.Finally, I would like to thank Dr. Nguyen Duc Hiep for writing precious introduction.Thank my friend Do Ngoc Thanh by permission to use very valuable material for this book.Lastly, thank the translator Đang Thi Huong and especially thank Mr Alan J. Patterson for his dedication to editing this book.Sai Gon. The Winter 2020Ha Van Thu

Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134647118

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Twentieth-Century China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Pdf

Twentieth Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the field, which has recently undergone considerable change. The three major parts of this reader take into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history, and reflections on cultural history. The chapters in this volume reflect a move away from a Western-centred analysis of Chinese history, as well as the new wealth of archival material made accessible over the last decade. They highlight in challenging ways important topics that have generated considerable excitement among historians. Subjects discussed include the watershed date of 1949, feminism, the revolutions, the discourse of the communist party, and political theatre in modern China.

Author : Huaiyin Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824837266

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Reinventing Modern China by Huaiyin Li Pdf

This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation. Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. 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.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674984264

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China’s Good War by Rana Mitter Pdf

Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”—a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China discouraged public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization—and one that saw Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek fighting for the same goals. But now, as China grows more powerful, the meaning of the war is changing. Rana Mitter argues that China’s reassessment of the war years is central to its newfound confidence abroad and to mounting nationalism at home. China’s Good War begins with the academics who shepherded the once-taboo subject into wider discourse. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, they researched the Guomindang war effort, collaboration with the Japanese, and China’s role in forming the post-1945 global order. But interest in the war would not stay confined to scholarly journals. Today public sites of memory—including museums, movies and television shows, street art, popular writing, and social media—define the war as a founding myth for an ascendant China. Wartime China emerges as victor rather than victim. The shifting story has nurtured a number of new views. One rehabilitates Chiang Kai-shek’s war efforts, minimizing the bloody conflicts between him and Mao and aiming to heal the wounds of the Cultural Revolution. Another narrative positions Beijing as creator and protector of the international order that emerged from the war—an order, China argues, under threat today largely from the United States. China’s radical reassessment of its collective memory of the war has created a new foundation for a people destined to shape the world.

Author : Edward Gunn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766227

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Rewriting Chinese by Edward Gunn Pdf

Everyone who has studied the upheavals of modern China knows that one of them has taken place in Chinese writing. Anyone who has read Chinese texts has also eventually pondered the possible significance of this upheaval for understanding the text, and vice versa. By analyzing formal features and speculating about their relevance to the construction of a modern Chinese culture, this book intends to show why the Chinese have come to write the way they do in this century. Drawing on linguistic and rhetorical descriptions of language in writing as features of style, the author reviews the innovations that have been introduced into modern Chinese prose from both Chinese and foreign sources. The social history of these features, the attempts by various writers to assert cultural, political, and aesthetic principles through them and the resulting tensions and conventions that arise all form the critical framework for a study of Chinese prose literature and its most innovative authors in this century. The study is introduced and informed throughout by a succinct review o scholarly research from a wide range of disciplines relevant to the question of style as an object of study in contemporary criticism. The book begins its approach to style with an Introduction that draws on Gestalt theory, information theory, and linguistics to develop a nuanced concept of what "style" is, one that gives adequate weight to the complex interplay of psychological, formal, and historical features at work. Two chapters then examine various aspects of convention, necessarily a historical phenomenon. The fourth chapter, by contrast, discusses the aesthetic prescriptions by which modern Chinese writers sought consciously to introduce innovation and points out the limitations of a prescriptive approach. The final two chapters study the strategies of specific writers. Almost half the book is an Appendix that consists of a rich catalog of rhetorical and stylistic examples, drawn from a wide range of twentieth-century Chinese literary writing. These hundreds of examples, identified by the nomenclature of grammar, rhetoric, and sentence cohesion, constitute a veritable handbook of modern Chinese prose. The book also contains a Glossary of terms draw from rhetoric and linguistics.

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 014103145X

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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter Pdf

In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves.

Author : Shelley Rigger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442230026

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Why Taiwan Matters by Shelley Rigger Pdf

Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became such a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called "miracles." She links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy. All readers interested in Asia and international affairs will find this an accessible and entertaining overview, replete with human interest stories and colorful examples of daily life in Taiwan.

Author : Manuel Perez-Garcia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811578656

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Global History with Chinese Characteristics by Manuel Perez-Garcia Pdf

This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.

Author : Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Oldřich Král,Graham Sanders
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173648

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The Appropriation of Cultural Capital by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová,Oldřich Král,Graham Sanders Pdf

"For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse and highlight issues such as strategies of discourse formation, scholarly methodologies, rhetorical dispositions, the manipulation of historical sources, and the construction of modernity by means of the reification of China’s literary past."

Author : James P. Harrison
Publisher : New York : Atheneum, 1969 [c1968]
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004025360

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The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions by James P. Harrison Pdf

Author : Klaus Mühlhahn
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737358

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Making China Modern by Klaus Mühlhahn Pdf

Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.

Author : Henry Sanderson,Michael Forsythe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118176368

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China's Superbank by Henry Sanderson,Michael Forsythe Pdf

Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth—the China Development Bank Anyone wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB)—which has displaced the World Bank as the world's biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In China’s Superbank, Bloomberg authors Michael Forsythe and Henry Sanderson outline how the bank is at the center of China's domestic economic growth and how it is helping to expand China's influence in strategically important overseas markets. 100 percent owned by the Chinese government, the CDB holds the key to understanding the inner workings of China's state-led economic development model, and its most glaring flaws. The bank is at the center of the country's efforts to build a world-class network of highways, railroads, and power grids, pioneering a lending scheme to local governments that threatens to spawn trillions of yuan in bad loans. It is doling out credit lines by the billions to Chinese solar and wind power makers, threatening to bury global competitors with a flood of cheap products. Another $45 billion in credit has been given to the country's two biggest telecom equipment makers who are using the money to win contracts around the globe, helping fulfill the goal of China's leaders for its leading companies to "go global." Bringing the story of China Development Bank to life by crisscrossing China to investigate the quality of its loans, China’s Superbank travels the globe, from Africa, where its China-Africa fund is displacing Western lenders in a battle for influence, to the oil fields of Venezuela. Offers a fascinating insight into the China Development Bank (CDB), the driver of China's rapid economic development Travels the globe to show how the CDB is helping Chinese businesses "go global" Written by two respected reporters at Bloomberg News As China's influence continues to grow around the world, many people are asking how far it will extend. China’s Superbank addresses these vital questions, looking at the institution at the heart of this growth.

Author : Jude Blanchette
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190605841

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China's New Red Guards by Jude Blanchette Pdf

In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy-a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. This book not only will reshape our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it will also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.