MCLC: Challenge of Linear Time

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Haiyan Lee <haiyan at stanford.edu>
Subject: Challenge of Linear Time
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New Publication Announcement

The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in
East Asia
Edited by: Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Axel
Schneider, University of Göttingen
Leiden: Brill, 2014
http://www.brill.com/products/book/challenge-linear-time


The papers collected in this volume 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. As China and Japan entered the global capitalist system of
nation states, the Chinese and Japanese regimes implemented a number of
reforms, which resulted in transformations that affected everyday
experience. In the face of imperialism and the perceived threat of being
split up, the Meiji and late Qing governments radically reoriented
policies in order to become wealthy and powerful in the global arena.
People not only began to experience time and space in new ways, but elites
also were increasingly exposed to Western theories of history and concepts
of nationhood, which became dominant. These changes contributed to the
production of new types of historical consciousness and collective
identity. The essays in this volume each provide a perspective on the
complex ways in which imagining national and regional identity in East
Asia were and continue to be enmeshed with visions of time and history.
This book should be of interest to all those who are interested in
nationalism, modernity in China and Japan, global capitalism and the
politics of time.

Table of contents
Introduction
Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider

Time, History, and Moral Responsibility
1. Negativity and historicist time: facticity and intellectual history of
the 1930s 
Naoki Sakai 
2. Ontological Optimism, Cosmological Confusion, and Unstable Evolution:
Tan Sitong’s Renxue and Zhang Taiyan’s Response
Viren Murthy
3. Nation, history and ethics: the choices of post-imperial historiography
in China 
Axel Schneider 
4. Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and Reading History
Sun Ge

The Burden of the Past and the Hope for a Better Future
5. An Eschatological View of History: Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s
Takahiro Nakajima 
6. The Campaign to Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius (批林批孔) and the
Problem 
of “Restoration” in Chinese Marxist Historiography
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Recollection of the Past and the Popularization of History
7. Popular Readings and Wartime Historical Writings in Modern China
Long-hsin Liu
8. Figuring History and Horror in a Provincial Museum: The Water Dungeon,
the Rent Collection Courtyard, and the Socialist Undead
Haiyan Lee

History and the Definition of Spatial, Cultural and Temporal Boundaries
9. Revolution as Restoration: Meanings of “National Essence” and “National
Learning” in Guocui xuebao
Tze-ki Hon 
10. Temporality of Knowledge and History Writing in Early
Twentieth-Century China. Liu Yizheng and A History of Chinese Culture
Ya-pei Kuo