World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century PDF
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F a n W World History and o r l d National Identity H i s in China t o r y The Twentieth Century a n d N Xin Fan a t i o n a l I d e n t i t y i n C h i n a World History and National Identity in China Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China’s intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentiethcentury,thecombinedforcesofcultural,social,andpolitical transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has persisted. Xin Fan examines the ways in which historians working on theworldbeyondChinafromwithinChinahaveattemptedtoconstruct narrativesthatchallengenationalistreadingsoftheChinesepastandthe influence that these historians have had on the formation of Chinese identity.Hetracesthewaysinwhichgenerationsofhistorians,fromthe lateQingthroughtheRepublicanperiod,throughtheMaoperiodtothe relative moment of “opening” in the 1980s, have attempted to break cross-cultural boundaries in writing an alternative to the national narrative. Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at the State University of NewYorkatFredonia. World History and National Identity in China The Twentieth Century Xin Fan StateUniversityofNewYorkatFredonia UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108842600 DOI:10.1017/9781108903653 ©XinFan2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Fan,Xin,1977–author. Title:WorldhistoryandnationalidentityinChina:thetwentiethcentury/Xin Fan,StateUniversityofNewYorkatFredonia. Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge UniversityPress,2021.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020034426(print)|LCCN2020034427(ebook)|ISBN 9781108842600(hardback)|ISBN9781108829502(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:Nationalism–China.|Worldhistory. Classification: LCC JC311 .F25 2021 (print) | LCC JC311 (ebook) | DDC 951.0072–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020034426 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020034427 ISBN978-1-108-84260-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To Yan and Eric Contents ListofFiguresandTables pageviii PrefaceandAcknowledgments ix Introduction:ControlandResistance TheSocialProductionofWorldHistoryunder theInfluenceofRadicalPolitics 1 1 TheConfucianLegacy World-HistoricalWritingattheTurnoftheTwentieth Century 16 2 TheCulturalDestiny NationalismandWorldHistoryinRepublicanChina 50 3 Becomingthe“World” WorldHistoriansintheEarlyPeople’sRepublic 86 4 TheForcedAnalogy Control,Resistance,andWorldHistoryinthe1950s 128 5 ImaginingGlobalAntiquity Continuity,Transformation,andWorldHistory inPost-MaoChina 153 Conclusion:WorldHistoryandtheValueofthePast 192 Appendix:ListofCharacters 210 Bibliography 217 Index 241 vii Figures and Tables Figures 1 ZhouWeihan(akaXueqiao) page31 2 MappingtheChangzhouintellectualnetwork 35 3 Returnedstudents’conferenceatTsinghuaCollege,ca. 1918–1919 58 4 StudentoriginsoftheAncientWorldHistorySeminar, 1955–1957 124 5 LinZhichunstatueattheNortheastNormalUniversity campus 186 6 PortraitofChouWen-chung 209 Tables 1 Referencelist:AnOutlineofWesternHistory 49 2 LeiHaizong’sdoublelifecyclesofChineseculture 71 3 ChinesetranslationofSovietancientworldhistorytextbooks intheearly1950s 101 4 Participantsofthe1955–1957AncientWorldHistorySeminar 123 5 DebateontheAsiaticmodeofproductionintheearly1950s 137 6 Separationofpowersinancientcity-states 179 viii
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