Chinese Historiography on the Revolution of 1911: A critical survey and a selected bibliography PDF
Preview Chinese Historiography on the Revolution of 1911: A critical survey and a selected bibliography
Historical study of the Revolution may advance in the future in terms of interpretation and presentation, the voluminous writings produced during the 1911-72 period will continue to serve as the major fountain of information. Since political authorities both on the mainland and on Taiwan have explored the archival collections that survived the civil war decades, and since the witnesses to the revolutionary events have either passed away or have entered their declining years, it is unlikely that any substantial amount of new material will be found outside this body of literature produced during the past half-century. It would therefore seem all the more advisable that researchers should become familiar not only with the nature of this material but also with the specific political and ideological forces that created the milieu for the preparation of these works.
This book, therefore, is designed not merely as a bibliographic survey, although attention has indeed been paid to the problems concerning revision of texts, differences among editions, and the selection and compilation of documents. The volume is essentially a historical and historiographical essay intended to highlight the representative works and the major trends of Chinese historical writings on the Revolution. And it is in the perspective of the old tradition of Chinese historiography and in the more specific context of the political and intellectual history of twentieth-century China that various trends of Chinese writings on the Revolution are presented and interpreted in this volume.
The list of books you might like
