"Can the term \"early modern\" be used to describe Chinese history?"

Tony Buchwald

ISBN 10: 3656671850 / ISBN 13: 9783656671855

Published by GRIN Verlag, GRIN Verlag Jun 2014, 2014

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Neuware -Academic Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1,3, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, course: Late Imperial China - Culture, Politics, History, language: English, abstract: ¿Early modernity¿ is a concept of ambiguity in historiographic scholarship and has been a topic for discussion for several decades. Søren Clausen discussed the term in regard to China in his paper, Early Modern China ¿ A Preliminary Postmortem. For Clausen, the search for a terminology describing an ¿early modern Chinä emerged from the urge to incorporate China into a world history, whose importance he stresses in his introductory sentence: ¿A world that is increasingly becoming ¿one world¿ needs a world history¿ . What he also did was to recap the influence other historians had on the discussion during the 1980s and 90s, which are partially also addressed in the paper.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 12 pp. Englisch.

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• Title: "Can the term \"early modern\" be used to describe Chinese history?"
• Publisher: GRIN Verlag, GRIN Verlag Jun 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3656671850
• ISBN 13: 9783656671855
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 2D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 2 millimeters depth
• Weight: 34 grams

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Academic Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1,3, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, course: Late Imperial China - Culture, Politics, History, language: English, abstract: "Early modernity" is a concept of ambiguity in historiographic scholarship and has been a topic for discussion for several decades. Søren Clausen discussed the term in regard to China in his paper, Early Modern China - A Preliminary Postmortem. For Clausen, the search for a terminology describing an "early modern China" emerged from the urge to incorporate China into a world history, whose importance he stresses in his introductory sentence: "A world that is increasingly becoming 'one world' needs a world history" . What he also did was to recap the influence other historians had on the discussion during the 1980s and 90s, which are partially also addressed in the paper.