The Shape of History

Ever since Hayden White declared that as a literary artifact the historical text is indistinguishable from fiction, the study of historiography has ceased to be the prerogative of historians. It is thus no accident that we owe some of the finest recent works on the Zuo zhuan , China's oldest narrative history, not to historians but to scholars of Chinese literature. In her splendid book on The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography (Cambridge 2007) Li Wai-yee demonstrates just how fruitful it is to treat Chinese historiography from a literary perspective. She puts to rest the “idea that kernels of historical truth can or should be separated from the rich verbal fabric” in favor of “what is more germane to the sense of history,” namely “the conscious formulation of patterns and principles to understand the past” (Li 2007, pp. 2–3)

Archaeology · Art · Historiography · History of literature · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Prerogative · Reading (process) · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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• Metahistory

  Hayden White•Metahistory•1973

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• Tropics of Discourse

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• Western Zhou History

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• The Invention Of Tradition

  Eric Hobsbawm, Terence O Ranger•Invention of Tradition•2012

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• Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft

  Julian Müller, Ansgar Lorenz•Niklas Luhmann•2016

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• Foundations of Confucian Thought

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• Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)

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• Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

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• Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar

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• The Cambridge History of Ancient China

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• The Birth of the Past

  Zachary S Schiffman, Zachary Schiffman•Johns Hopkins University Press…•2017

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• A Patterned Past

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• History in Chinese Culture

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• Tropics of Discourse

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