Huaiyin Li is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Texas at Austin.
This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation.
Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it.
In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century.
發表於2025-04-14
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汪榮祖:《現代中國——“重新發明”還是“重新發現”?》 引自http://jds.cass.cn/Item/24260.aspx 時間:2013年12月09日 原網頁標明齣處:東方早報 Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing Huaiyin Li著 University of Hawa...
評分 評分 評分這本書是我在萬聖書店閑逛時,偶然發現的,因為近來閱讀興趣中的一個重點就是近代史,就順手買瞭下來,今天終於讀完瞭。看豆瓣上還沒有書評,就寫一篇,拋磚引玉吧 在一個曆史愛好者的眼中,麵目最不清晰的就是中國近代史瞭,難以想象在接受瞭從初中到大學的曆史教育後,初讀...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 曆史 人類學 近現代史 史學理論 曆史學 英文原版 近代史
雖說整體線條有點粗,但是總體來說effective,也算中肯。對modernization emplotment的分析似乎比post-1949粗瞭一些。一個問題就是對historian和history的definition似乎應該討論一下。另外,作為資料書時常翻翻也很有用。
評分一般吧,作者那意思就是中國1990-2000前的曆史學傢都死媽瞭,之後的雖然不死媽瞭也隻能搞一些雕蟲小技,然後最後作者提瞭一個在經過史學訓練的人看來毫無新意的建議……
評分理論功底差的結果是災難性的:自由主義的定義等同於現代化;在現代化之外,所謂「自由主義史學」幾乎空無一物;處理不瞭意識形態本身的內在張力和調適性,以及本土化過程中的必然妥協;對historiography的理解基本停留評價和態度的層麵上。
評分文筆這麼糟糕的史學史……怎麼說呢,什麼髒衣服都往“曆史的書寫”這個筐裏扔,是不好的。引言寫得簡直就是大二學生term paper的口氣。
評分翻過:history as reality and constructed narrative;如果這就是最前沿的曆史理論,那就有點落後瞭。
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