An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography

• Main Author: Wu, Huaiqi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: China Academic Library,
• Subjects: China-History.; History-Philosophy.; History of China.; Philosophy of History.

This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Research Questions
• Ideas of History in Pre-Imperial China
• Ideas of History in the Medieval China: Shiji, or The Grand Scribe's Historical Records, and Hanshu, or History of Western Han Dynasty
• Medieval Ideas of History, Confucianism, and the Mysterious Learning
• A Medieval Conclusion of History and Ideas of History
• Lixue, or the Learning of Principle, and Ideas of History
• Ideas of History in Ming and Qing Dynasties: Historical Criticism and Aspirations to Change
• Ideas of History in Modern China
• Globalization and Chinese Ideas of History
• Index
• Bibliography
• Appendix.