The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia / [electronic resource] edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider. - 1 online resource (311 pages). - Leiden series in comparative historiography, volume 7 1574-4493 ; . - Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 7. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.

9789004260146 (e-book)


Historiography--Political aspects--China.
Historiography--Political aspects--Japan.
Time--Political aspects--China.
Time--Political aspects--Japan.
Nationalism--China.
Nationalism--Japan.


China--Historiography.
Japan--Historiography.
China--Intellectual life--20th century.
Japan--Intellectual life--20th century.


Electronic books.

DS734.7 / .C38 2014

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