The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia

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The papers collected in this volume, although dealing with several different themes, congeal around a debate about the ways and extent of the dominance of linear time and progressive history and the concomitant delineation of the nation in Chinese and Japanese historiography. Contents List of Contributors Introduction Time, History, and Moral Responsibility Chapter One Negativity and Historicist Time: Facticity and Intellectual History of the 1930s Chapter Two Ontological Optimism, Cosmological Confusion, and Unstable Evolution: Tan Sitong’s Renxue and Zhang Taiyan’s Response Chapter Three Nation, History and Ethics: The Choices of Post-Imperial Historiography in China Chapter Four Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and Reading History The Burden of the Past and the Hope for a Better Future Chapter Five An Eschatological View of History: Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s Chapter Six The Campaign to Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius (批林批孔) and the Problem of “Restoration” in Chinese Marxist Historiography Recollection of the Past and the Popularization of History Chapter Seven Popular Readings and Wartime Historical Writings in Modern China Chapter Eight Figuring History and Horror in a Provincial Museum: The Water Dungeon, the Rent Collection Courtyard, and the Socialist Undead History and the Definition of Spatial, Cultural and Temporal Boundaries Chapter Nine Revolution as Restoration: Meanings of “National Essence” and “National Learning” in Guocui Xuebao Chapter Ten Temporality of Knowledge and History Writing in Early Twentieth-Century China. Liu Yizheng and A History of Chinese Culture Index