Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography
Biographical note
Axel Schneider, since August 2009 Professor of Modern Sinology at Göttingen University and Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, has been trained in Germany (Bochum and Heidelberg) and Taiwan (NCCU) in Sinology, Political Science and History. From 1989 till 2000 he worked as assistant professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2000 he was appointed Professor of Modern China Studies at Leiden University, in 2009 he moved to Göttingen. His research interests include modern Chinese history, intellectual history, and the history of Chinese historiography.
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Ph.D. Ruhr-University (1983), is Professor of Sinology at the Department for East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna, Austria and Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (2010-2012). She was also elected Vice-President for Research of the University of Vienna (2011-2015). Her main research areas include modern and contemporary Chinese history and historiography; governance in the PRC, especially health care in the Chinese countryside and environmental protection; East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries; memory of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Famine; Chinese international migration.
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Ph.D. Ruhr-University (1983), is Professor of Sinology at the Department for East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna, Austria and Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (2010-2012). She was also elected Vice-President for Research of the University of Vienna (2011-2015). Her main research areas include modern and contemporary Chinese history and historiography; governance in the PRC, especially health care in the Chinese countryside and environmental protection; East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries; memory of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Famine; Chinese international migration.
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The book offers a new approach to the discussion on the issue of Chinese national identity, providing new insights in how identity is constructed and contested. These issues are of vital concern for the understanding of contemporary China and its national consciousness.
€108.00$140.00
Drawing on a vast array of Chinese texts, Japanese scholarship, and critical philosophy, this book offers a radical rereading of Zhang Taiyan’s philosophy, highlighting the significance of Zhang’s ideas in the context of global capitalist modernity.
€110.00$142.00
This study investigates how writers of Deng Xiaoping’s China undermined the grand narrative of official history by rewriting the past. It showcases fictions of history by eleven Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography.
€115.00$149.00
By examining various forms of historical production happening outside the mainstream of academic history in early 20th century China, this book shows how historical writings were central to the Chinese debate on the nation, elite authority, and active citizenry.
€127.00$165.00
The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart.
€92.00$119.00
Revolution as Restoration examines the journal Guocui xuebao (1905-1911) to elucidate the momentous political and social changes in early twentieth-century China.
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