Introduction

History From Between and the Global Circulations of the Past in Asia and Europe, 1600–1950

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ID8045698
AuthorsLeigh Kathryn Jenco (0000-0001-7249-7843, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), John Chappell (0000-0001-6946-8662, Film Independent)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue1
Pages1-16
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x19000633
OpenAlexW3082445917
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited48

This article argues for a ‘history from between’ as the best lens through which to understand the construction of historical knowledge between East Asia and Europe. ‘Between’ refers to the space framed by East Asia and Europe, but also to the global circulations of ideas in that space, and to the subjective feeling of embeddedness in larger-than-local contexts that being in such a space makes possible. Our contention is that the outcomes of such entanglements are not merely reactive forms of knowledge, of the kind implied by older studies of translation and reception in global intellectual history. Instead they are themselves ‘co-productions’: they are the shared and mutually interactive inputs to enduring modes of uses of the past, across both East Asian and European traditions. Taking seriously the possibility that interpretations of the past were not transferred, but rather were co-produced between East Asia and Europe, we reconstruct the braided histories of historical narratives that continue to shape constructions of identity throughout Eurasia

Embeddedness · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History, Culture, and Diplomacy

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