On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography
After the First Opium War (1840-1842) there were increased academic interests in studying the history and geography of China’s northwestern borderlands, introducing foreign history and geography and writing the modern history of China. Such interests, however, were no more than reflections of th...
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| description | After the First Opium War (1840-1842) there were increased academic
interests in studying the history and geography of China’s northwestern
borderlands, introducing foreign history and geography and writing the
modern history of China. Such interests, however, were no more than
reflections of the times in history studies and could hardly improve the
whole picture of historiography. At the turn of the 20th century, Liang
Qichao published “The Introduction to Chinese History” and “The New
Historiography”, which marked the emergence of a new trend of thought
in historiography and should be deemed the beginning of modern Chinese
historiography. Soon after, the “national quintessence school” (guocui xuepai)
called for preserving the quintessence of Chinese culture and attempted
to bridge Chinese and Western scholarship. Then the “Reorganization of
National Heritage” (zhengli guogu) Movement came, urging to re-arrange
traditional scholarship. Hu Shih (1891-1962) explicitly put forward the goal
of “compiling a history of Chinese culture,” helped dissolve the boundary
between modern and traditional historiography and indicated the approach to
the transformation from ancient to modern historiography from a perspective
of discipline classifications. This “new trend” of Chinese historiography,
centering on new materials, new methods and new issues specified the
research path for the early stage of modern Chinese historiography |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acb2e836b81b45aa944f07fc7087bf492023-03-07T06:52:20ZengEditorial Department of Contemporary Social SciencesContemporary Social Sciences2096-02122019-09-0110.19873/j.cnki.2096-0212.2019.05.002On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese HistoriographyZhang Yue0Beijing Normal UniversityAfter the First Opium War (1840-1842) there were increased academic interests in studying the history and geography of China’s northwestern borderlands, introducing foreign history and geography and writing the modern history of China. Such interests, however, were no more than reflections of the times in history studies and could hardly improve the whole picture of historiography. At the turn of the 20th century, Liang Qichao published “The Introduction to Chinese History” and “The New Historiography”, which marked the emergence of a new trend of thought in historiography and should be deemed the beginning of modern Chinese historiography. Soon after, the “national quintessence school” (guocui xuepai) called for preserving the quintessence of Chinese culture and attempted to bridge Chinese and Western scholarship. Then the “Reorganization of National Heritage” (zhengli guogu) Movement came, urging to re-arrange traditional scholarship. Hu Shih (1891-1962) explicitly put forward the goal of “compiling a history of Chinese culture,” helped dissolve the boundary between modern and traditional historiography and indicated the approach to the transformation from ancient to modern historiography from a perspective of discipline classifications. This “new trend” of Chinese historiography, centering on new materials, new methods and new issues specified the research path for the early stage of modern Chinese historiographyhttps://css.researchcommons.org/journal/vol2019/iss5/6modern chinese historiographynew historiographythe “re-organizing the national heritage” movementliang qichao |
| spellingShingle | Zhang Yue On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography Contemporary Social Sciences modern chinese historiography new historiography the “re-organizing the national heritage” movement liang qichao |
| title | On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography |
| title_full | On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography |
| title_fullStr | On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography |
| title_short | On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography |
| title_sort | on the beginning and transformation of modern chinese historiography |
| topic | modern chinese historiography new historiography the “re-organizing the national heritage” movement liang qichao |
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