Rise of the Great Powers’=Rise of China? Challenges of the advancement of global history in the People's Republic of China

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ID12422146
AuthorsQ Edward Wang (0009-0001-8333-2689, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume19
Issue64
Pages273-289
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670560903444223
OpenAlexW2125520562
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Ever since it was first broadcasted in 2006, the Rise of the Great Powers, a popular Chinese TV mini-series of 12 episodes, has received great attention both at home and abroad. Some have suggested that the showing of this series marked a new orientation in China's foreign policy and a new perception of its position in the world. Using oral interviews and written works by the historians who masterminded the project, this article analyzes the view of the Chinese historian, and of current Chinese leadership, about the globalizing world today and China's position in and relation to it. Using the documentary as a starting point, it discusses the status quo of world-history study in China today and argues that though receptive to the incentive for globalizing history writing, historical scholarship in China remains grounded in a Eurocentric understanding of modern world history. China's recent economic expansion has paradoxically reinforced this tradition, as the country is bracing for its own world power status

China · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · People's Republic · Political science · The Republic · Asian Studies and History · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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