| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 489 pages) |
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Leiden series in comparative historiography, 1574-4493 ; v. 1 |
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Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 1. 1574-4493
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| Contents |
Preface (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer); List of Contributors; Religious Claims of Truth versus Critical Method -- Some General Remarks on a Complex Relationship in Western Tradition (Petra Bahr); Language Change in Premodern China -- Notes on Its Perception and Its Impact on the Idea of a "Constant Way" (Wolfgang Behr); Poetry and Religion: The Representation of "Truth" in Early Chinese Historiography (Martin Kern); Normativity and History in Warring States Thought. The Shift towards the Anthropological Paradigm (Heiner Roetz); Truth Claims in Shiji (Stephen Durrant) |
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Why has the Question of Truth Remained an Open Question Throughout Chinese History? (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer)Criteria of Historical Judgment (Jörn Rüsen); Some Notions of Historical Judgment in China and the West (Kai Vogelsang); Platitude and Persona: Junzi Comments in Zuozhuan and Beyond (David Schaberg); Speeches and the Question of Authenticity in Ancient Chinese Historical Records (Yuri Pines); The Past as a Messianic Vision: Histor |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart |
| Notes |
Proceedings of the third and last meeting of the conference series "Chinese historiography and historical culture from a comparative perspective" held Oct. 4-6, 2001, at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Congresses
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Historiography -- China -- Congresses
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History -- Philosophy -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Historiography
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History -- Philosophy
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Geschiedschrijving.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig
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Mittag, Achim, 1958-
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Rüsen, Jörn
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| ISBN |
9781429452687 |
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1429452684 |
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9781433704062 |
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1433704064 |
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