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


Academic Paper, 2013

7 Pages, Grade: 1,3


Abstract or Introduction

“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.

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Title
Can the term "early modern" be used to describe Chinese history?
College
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Course
Late Imperial China - Culture, Politics, History
Grade
1,3
Author
Year
2013
Pages
7
Catalog Number
V274521
ISBN (eBook)
9783656671886
ISBN (Book)
9783656671855
File size
417 KB
Language
English
Keywords
China, Chinese, imperial, early modern, Modernism, history, historiography, cultural, discussion, terminology, late imperial China, semiotics
Quote paper
Tony Buchwald (Author), 2013, Can the term "early modern" be used to describe Chinese history?, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/274521

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