Inventing China through history : the May Fourth approach to historiography / Q. Edward Wang.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286) and index.

Print version record.

History and Modernity -- The Chinese Context -- Tradition and Identity -- New Horizon, New Attitude -- Past versus Present -- Perceiving the West -- New Historiography -- Scientific Inquiry -- Innovation or Renovation? -- The American Model -- History and Philology -- Rankean Historiography -- Equivalences and Differences -- Methodological Attempt (A) -- Methodological Attempt (B) -- In Discovery of Ancient China -- In Search of Modern History -- Seeking China's National Identity -- China-Based Modern Culture -- History and Public Sphere -- History and Politics -- Ti and Yong: A Reconsideration.

"This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong, Fu Sinian, Yao Congwu, and Chen Yinke. Buoyed by the quest for "Mr. Science" and "Mr. Democracy" during the May Fourth Movement of 1919, these historians searched for a scientific presentation of China's national past, inspired by the Western and Japanese practice of scientific history. Their efforts to bridge the perceived gap between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, past and present, created a new, scientific model of history in China.

The book also discusses the significance of this historiographical experience in late-twentieth-century China and Taiwan."--Jacket.

English.

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