Between Marxism and Nationalism

Chinese historiography and the Soviet influence, 1949-1963

Bibliographic Data

ID12423209
AuthorsQ Edward Wang (0009-0001-8333-2689, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume9
Issue23
Pages95-111
Publication date2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/106705600112074
OpenAlexW2035822472
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

The Chinese practice of Marxist historical writing represents a dynamic interaction between nationalism and transnationalism. On the one hand, Chinese Marxists were attracted to the Soviet experience in applying Marxism to historical study, especially during the 1950s and the early 1960s, for the latter provided a seemingly much needed theoretical guidance. On the other hand, they attempted to circumscribe the Soviet influence in order to strike a balance between history and theory, the foreign and the indigenous, and the national and the transnational. In so doing, they turned their practice of Marxism into an interpretive, hermeneutic process, in which the temporal distance between the Marxist text and China's historical experience became recognized

China · Historiography · Indigenous · Marxist historiography · Marxist philosophy · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law

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