HISTORICAL DISCOURSE IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CHINA

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  V. Kiktenko

Abstract

The article reflects the complex process of formation of representations about the past in the traditional and modern China. It was noted that the foundation of the new Chinese historiography was largely influenced by Western science which resulted in establishment of a school of criticism of China’s traditional historiography (yígǔpài). We analyzed the conceptual influence of Marxism on the formation of historical science in China in 1950–1970 years, a critical rethinking of China’s place in world history and the study of the global dimension of historical events at the present stage by the Chinese scientists in 1980–2000 years. The methodology of the modern Chinese version of world history is based on a mixture of historical materialism, Western theories of world history and the widespread use of a comparative approach to the analysis of long-term trans-regional and historical trends. It is shown that modern Chinese historical science is substantially nationalistic, modernistic and traditionalist.

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Kiktenko, V. (2016). HISTORICAL DISCOURSE IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CHINA. The World of the Orient, (4 (93), 52-64. https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2016.04.052
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Keywords

China, Historical Discourse

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