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Record Nr.

UNINA9910869182903321

Autore

Fan Xin

Titolo

Global History in China / / by Xin Fan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9789819733811

9789819733804

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Disciplina

909.0720951

Soggetti

Asia - Politics and government

Archaeology - Philosophy

Economic history

History - Philosophy

Asian Politics

Global South Methods and Theory

Economic History

Philosophy of History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Theory -- Chapter 2: World History in China -- Chapter 3: Origins of Global History -- Part II: Practice -- Chapter 4: Global Intellectual History -- Chapter 5: The World as Historical Analogy -- Chapter 6: The Global Moment -- Part III: Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Rise of Area Studies and Global History.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores global history as an emerging field of scholarly studies in China today. Readers are invited to rethink the origin of global history in China and to examine its current state. Chinese scholarship is rooted in a warm appreciation of globalization in the age of Opening-up and Reform and presented as a trendy transnational intellectual movement at the opening of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, global history claims an identity of the “new” eager to criticize the Eurocentric bias embedded in the narratives of the “old,” ones from world history; on the other hand, as an emerging field, it is yet to face competitions from national histories and area studies, which



are nurtured by latest state initiatives with outspoken political agendas. As a whole, global history captures Chinese scholars’ tenacious interest in studying globalization through the lens of history. This book will interest historians, China scholars, and those trying to grasp the “Chinese perspective” on the world. Dr. Xin Fan is Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge. He teaches at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018).