The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History

Kristin Stapleton has written two books on the transformation of Chinese cities in the 20th century, one focusing on the adoption of Western-style institutions such as professional police and municipal governments, and one that examines how writer Ba Jin's "Family," one of China's most famous 20th-century novels, represented city life. The influence of fiction and film on perceptions of Chinese history in China and the United States is one of her interests. She is a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Stapleton's research also examines the history of Chinese city life in the 1950s, when China was allied with the Soviet Union. Dr Xin Fan teaches at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow at Lucy Cavendish College. He is the author of "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (CUP, 2021), of "Global History in China" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and the second editor of "Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia" (Brill, 2018). Els van Dongen received her Ph.D. from the Department of Chinese Studies, Leiden University (the Netherlands). She obtained her M.A. and B.A. degrees from the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Leuven (Belgium), and a post-graduate degree in International Relations from the Department of Political Science, University of Leuven. Prior to joining NTU, she also studied and conducted research in China (Central China Normal University and Peking University), and the USA (Boston University). She completed her Ph.D. with the support of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Fulbright Foundation. Els specializes in the study of modern and contemporary China from global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her research broadly covers two main areas, namely Chinese intellectual history and knowledge circulation and Chinese migration and diaspora. Both areas are connected in that they reflect her core concern of how the transnational movement of people, ideas, and institutions has informed the making of modern and contemporary China. Methodologically, she combines textual analysis of a broad range of Chinese primary sources with interdisciplinary, regional, global, and comparative approaches developed from her training in Chinese Studies, history and International Relations.

Introduction - Kristin Stapleton, Els Van Dongen, Xin Fan Part I. Overviews and Framing Chapters Chapter 1. The Daotong, Genealogy, and History: On the Sources of Chinese Intellectual History's Narrative Framework - GE Zhaoguang Chapter 2. Conceptualizing the Foreign Relations of Late Imperial China: The Interpretative Entanglement of Two Worldviews, 1880s-2020s - Yuanchong Wang Chapter 3. The Politics of Constructing the History of China's Foreign Relations in the PRC - Tansen Sen Chapter 4. Visions of History in Chinese Constitutional Law - Egas Bernard Bender De Moniz Bandeira Chapter 5. Corporeality and Conceptions of History: How Gender Changed the Experience of the Past and Present - Louise Edwards Chapter 6. Historical Imaginations of High Qing Emperors in Sinophone Popular Cultures - Fei-Hsien Wang Part II. History in the Late-Qing Era Chapter 7. Chinese Historical Thinking and Civil Service Examinations in the Late 19th Century - Thomas H. C. Lee Chapter 8. "Official Periodicals" (Gazetteers, Gazettes, and Directories) and Qing History - Emily Mokros Chapter 9. Publishing and Communication in Late Qing China - Natascha Gentz Chapter 10. Memorials and Works of Commemoration in the Late Qing Period - Charles Desnoyers Chapter 11. History in Late-Qing Popular Culture - Igor Chabrowski Part III. History in the Republican Era Chapter 12. The Development of the History Profession and its Relation to the State - Xin Fan Chapter 13. History Textbooks and Historical Education in Republican China - Jenny Huangfu Day Chapter 14. The Hope and Fear in Joining the Modern World: Changing Frameworks of Historical Analysis in Late Qing and Republican China - Tzeki Hon Chapter 15. Displaying History: Constructing National Heritage in Modern China - Peter Zarrow Chapter 16. Memorials and Commemorative Structures in the Republican Era - Linh Vu Chapter 17. National Humiliation and National Pride: History in Popular Culture during the Republican Period - Yajun Mo Part IV. History in the Maoist Era Chapter 18. Changing Frameworks of Historical Analysis - Huaiyu Chen Chapter 19. Textbooks and History Education in the Maoist Era (1942-1978) - Marc Andre Matten Chapter 20. Ethnography as History-Chinese Ethnologists and the Construction of the Marxist Periodization Scheme of Chinese History - Xiaorong Han Chapter 21. Radical Pasts, Maoist Futures: History in the Cultural Revolution - Zachary Scarlett Chapter 22. Accusations and Confessions in Case Files - Man Zhang Part V. History in the Reform Era Chapter 23. Chinese Historiography during the Era of Reform and Opening - Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Chapter 24 Rethinking China's Past after China's Rise: Chinese Intellectuals and Modern China - David Ownby Chapter 25. Using the Past to Serve the Present - The Role of History in Post-Mao Chinese Nationalism - Robert Weatherley Chapter 26. Museums and the Making of Public History in Post-Mao China: Reimagining the Chinese nation in the Overseas Chinese Museum - Cangbai Wang Chapter 27. Narrating History in Reform Era Chinese Cinema - Yiyang Hou Part VI. Border Histories Chapter 28: From China's Frontier to Frontier China - Xiaoyuan Liu Chapter 29: "Rediscovering" 2-28: Knowledge Production, Memorialization, and the Emergence of Taiwanese Nationalism - Evan Dawley Chapter 30: Historical Memory in Hong Kong: Agency under the shadow of empires - Gina Anne Tam Chapter 31: "History in Xinjiang: The Changing Nature and Resiliency of Historical Practices from the late Qing to the Present - Sandrine Catris Chapter 32: Popular Historical Narratives of Overseas Migration - Steven B. Miles

History in modern China is not only a mirror to contemporary culture, politics, and society. In the chapters of this Sage Handbook, it also serves as a prism through which we view China's understanding of itself and the world, its experience in revolution and reform, and the depth and diversity of its narratives over time. Representing the world's leading experts and covering a wide range of topics-including official and unofficial texts and sources-these essays will be an indispensable guide for every student and scholar of China. -- Denise Y. Ho