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Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology

Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective

Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology
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Three issues essential to our insight into the concept and function of historical consciousness, and the description thereof, form the core of this book: historical truth, historical comment and criticism, and ideology (including the historian’s trustworthiness).

Taking as a point of departure the workings of these concepts in Chinese historical thinking, the volume carefully draws comparisons with similar topics in the Western tradition. It thus advocates and shows a truly comparative approach that sets the stage for an intercultural dialogue on this important subject.

The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart.

BRILL; October 2004
515 pages; ISBN 9781433704062
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ISBNs
9789004142374
9781433704062
1433704064