Month: December 2013
Zhao Tingyang (赵汀阳) on progress, modernity and globalization
Discussing notions of progress and historical necessity in the context of debates on modernity and globalization. Interesting Read!
赵汀阳：现代性的终结与全球性的未来
Third issue (2009) of the Journal of True Enlightenment (正覺學報) dedicated to a Buddhist vision of “true historiography”
Buddhist inspired vision of “true historiography” that is quite a challenge for traditional university historians. See http://scholar.enlighten.org.tw/, and for the specific issue http://scholar.enlighten.org.tw/Downloads.html#Vol_3.
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Wang Hui (汪晖) on the Korean War
Article by Wang Hui (汪晖) on the Korean War that has been severly criticized since it was published in early December in 文化纵横 2013:6.
汪晖：二十世纪中国历史视野下的抗美援朝战争
2013-12-02
see http://www.guancha.cn/wang-hui/2013_12_02_189811_s.shtml (text below copied from there).
see http://www.21bcr.com/a/shiye/lishiguan/2013/1202/3503.html (original text from 文化纵横 2013: 6, there online without photographs).
see also http://history.people.com.cn/n/2013/1219/c372329-23886322.html.
see also http://www.xtmm.cn/2013/1231/xinshijixiaduichaoxi.html#anchor0.
Sharp critique by Yang Kuisong (杨奎松) of Wang Hui’s (汪晖) article on the Korean war
Sharp critique by Yang Kuisong (杨奎松) of Wang Hui’s (汪晖) article on the Korean war, accusing him of ignoring or misreading facts (mis)-guided by his own ideology. In this context, Yang Kuisong uses the phrase 以论带史 (let.: guiding history by theory), going back to methodological discussions of the 1950s and 60s on the correct relationship between theory (Marxism-Leninism) and history (facts, particular Chinese history). Very interesting read!
杨奎松：纠正汪晖论抗美援朝文章谬误
Review by Huang Xingtao (黄兴涛) of “A Sociocultural History of Time” (时间的社会文化史) by Zhan Xiaobai (湛晓白)
探究近代中国的时间之史——读《时间的社会文化史》
黄兴涛
(for a previous entry on this book, see here)
不夸张地说，晚清民国文学中所呈现的各式时间体验，着实构成了中国现代性兴起之史中极为独特的一个部分。这不仅决定了我们考察近代时间观念转变的时候，无法漠视文学史料，同时也解释了时间观念的现代性研究，往往为文学研究者所热衷的原因。然文学视野的时间研究，不免相对淡化历史的维度，常常难以餍足史学研究者的胃口。
在中国传统汉语里，“时间”一词并不流行，佛经以外的主要用法为“目前”、“眼下”、“一时”的意思。
Long interview with Zhang Rulun (张汝伦) on his commentary to “Being and Time” conducted by Wenhui bao (文汇报)
《文汇报》评论：因为有伟大的经典，人类才仍然觉得有希望（转载）
复旦大学哲学学院教授张汝伦： 因为有伟大的经典，人类才仍然觉得有希望
张汝伦教授潜心8年完成的《<存在与时间>释义》一书近日出版。《存在与时间》是现代西方哲学重要人物海德格尔的划时代著作，也是最难读的哲学经典之一。那么，在今天，我们应该怎样阅读经典，并正确理解经典？本报记者就这些问题对张汝伦教授进行了专访。 本报记者任思蕴
[information provided by Song Na (宋娜), Xi’an]
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TOC of Chinese Commentary by Zhang Rulun (张汝伦) on Heidegger’s “Being and Time”
作者：张汝伦
出版社: 世纪出版集团,上海人民出版社
外文书名: A Commentary on Being and Time
丛书名: 2011国家哲学社会科学成果文库
页数：1228
出版时间：2012年3月
[information provided by Song Na (宋娜), Xi’an]
Long review article by Xu Zhaochang (许兆昌) and Hou Xudong (侯旭东) on Yan Buke’s (阎步克) “the musician and the historiographer” (乐师与史官)
The reviewers discuss Yan Buke’s edited volume “the musician and the historiographer” (乐师与史官) as exceptional insofar as his research on the history of historiography is not dominated by Western theories and methods as is the case with most modern Chinese historical research.
Economist Zhu Jiaming (朱嘉明) reflecting on historical contingency, necessity and the particularity of Chinese history in his discussion of the Cultural Revolution
In a “what if” type of historical speculation economist Zhu Jiaming reflects on the contingency, necessity and particularity of Chinese history in his discussion of the Cultural Revolution. See http://www.21ccom.net/articles/lsjd/lsjj/article_2013122797805.html.
朱嘉明：关于“文化革命”的几个假设
Re-opening of the KMT Party Archives
Here a recent article on the re-opening of the KMT Party Archive and the online catalogue, see http://news.chinatimes.com/forum/11051402/112013122700447.html. For the catalogue see http://archives.kmt.org.tw/.
Pladoyer by Qian Chengdan (钱乘旦) arguing that historians should engage in public history (公共史学)
Interview with Qian Chengdan (钱乘旦) on public history (公共史学), see http://www.mingjingnews.com/MIB/news/news.aspx?ID=N000013392.
Li Aiyong (李爱勇) on the paradigmatic changes in Western research on Qing history and the reaction triggered by that in China
In this article Li Aiyong describes the far-reaching changes in Western research on the history of the Qing dynasty overcoming the previous paradigm of the assimilation of the Manchus. The new paradigm emphasizes the complex ethnic relations in the Qing empire and comes to a new, more Manchu-centered understanding of the nature of the Qing dynasty. This new research poses a direct challenge to Chinese researchers who find themselves in the difficult position of being committed to nationalism and yet still heavily relying on Western academic discourse and thus again just reacting to a foreign challenge.
新清史与“中华帝国”问题———又一次冲击与反应？
发布时间：2012-05-30
作者：李爱勇
来源：《史学月刊》2012.4
［关键词］新清史；族群理论；满族中心观；汉化；帝国主义；殖民主义
Monograph by historian Huang Jinxing (黃進興) on the transformation from “理學” to “倫理學”
Important monograph on the transformation from 理學 to 倫理學, which, albeit not focussing on modern academic historiography, is central for our understanding of the transition from a traditional understanding of 史 to modern notions of 歷史學. See Huang Jinxing 黃進興 (2013), 從理學到倫理學：清末民初道德意識的轉化 (台北, 允晨文化), see http://www.asianculture.com.tw/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=9142.
Online course on the theory of historiography by Pang Zhuoheng (庞卓恒)
Elaborate online course (2003) on the theory of historiography by Pang Zhuoheng (庞卓恒), see http://59.67.71.237:8080/history/.
Historian Qu Lindong (瞿林东) on the nature of historiography as committed to both, truth and politics
Text of 2009 by Qu Lindong, History Department, Beijing Normal University, and currently one of the main scholars in research on the history of Chinese historiography on the nature of historiography as committed to both, truth and politics, see http://history.news.163.com/09/0625/20/5CM986HU00013FKT.html.
New issue (24:4) of New History (新史學) just came out
New issue (24:4) of New History (新史學) just came out with a text on Hayden White’s position on Croce, see http://saturn.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~huangkc/nhist/NEWC.html.
Gao Hua (高华) on Mao’s role in the Chinese communist revolution
This is an article of 2006 by the famous, recently deceased (2012) historian Gao Hua from Nanjing University. Among the mass of texts recently published on Mao on the occassion of his 120th birthday, this still is a rather interesting and hence widely re-published, re-tweeted read. See http://www.aisixiang.com/data/11259.html and http://www.aisixiang.com/data/11259-2.html.
For a short summary of Gao Hua’s publication on the rectification campaign, see http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china_review_international/v015/15.4.chang01.html.
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Xi Jinping on the Cultural Revolution condemning the cultural destruction caused by it
As Xi Jinping’s position on historical materialism has been reported on this blog twice, here a short report concerning his position on the Cultural Revolution, the historical evaluation of which is contested. See http://trans.wenweipo.com/gb/news.wenweipo.com/2013/12/18/IN1312180006.htm.
History, Ethics and Faith in China 