The Biographical Approach to Chinese History

The distinctive, albeit controversial, role of the individual in history has given rise in the West to the development of biography as a special field of literature and historical writing. In China, the writing of biography has for many centuries also occupied a special position, a position shaped both by the forms and purposes of Chinese historical writing and by the fabric of Chinese society. The papers of this symposium, presented originally at the 1961 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, offer a preliminary assessment of the place of biographical writing in China and may serve to suggest avenues for further fruitful study and research

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · China · Field (mathematics · History of China · Literature · Position (finance · Sociology · Classics · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

• Historians of China and Japan, by W. G. Beasley, E. G. Pulleyblank

  Open Access•Howard L Boorman•Political Science Quarterly•1962

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• The Hero in History

  Carl Becker, Sidney Hook•The Philosophical Review•1944

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• The Study of Contemporary Chinese Politics

  Open Access•Howard L Boorman•World Politics•1960

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• Meaning in History

  Maurice Cranston, H P Rickman et al.•British Journal of Sociology•1962

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• Historians of China and Japan

  Herschel Webb, W G Beasley et al.•Pacific Affairs•1961

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