Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography

Q. Edward Wang is inaugural Eminent Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University and Editor of Chinese Studies in History. He has published widely in both English and Chinese on comparative historiography, global history, and Asian cultural and intellectual history. Amongst his English publications are: A Global History of Modern Historiography, Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History, Historiography: Critical Readings (four volumes), and Western Historiography in Asia: Circulation, Critique and Comparison.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsComparative Chronology of East AsiaGeneral Introduction Q. Edward WangPart I Traditions and VariationsIntroduction 1. Sima Qian and the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian): Historicism under the Early Han EmpireVincent S. Leung2. The Writing of Histories under the Tang (618-907) and Liu Zhiji’s Critical HistoriographyVictor Cunrui Xiong3. Historiography of the Song Dynasty (960-1279)Tsong-han Lee4. The Origin, Development, and Characteristics of Ancient Korean HistoriographySun Weiguo and Wu Dongming5. National Histories and Historical Practices in Premodern JapanSato YukiPart II Modern TransformationsIntroduction 6. Finding a Path to Modernity: Historical Discourses in China, 1895-1949Tze-ki Hon7. Modern and Contemporary Japanese Historiography: An Analysis from the Perspective of Tripartite RivalryNarita Ryūichi8. The Establishment of Modern Historiography in KoreaDo Myounhoi9. Chinese Revolutions and the Ebb and Flow of Marxist HistoriographyQ. Edward Wang10. Continuity and Change in the Historiography of Contemporary Japan: Nation-State and Progressivism (1945-present)Odanaka Naoki11. Post-1945 South Korean Historiography: A Tapestry of Turbulence and TransformationAn SooyoungPart III Asia and the WorldIntroduction12. The Study of Ancient Greek Historiography in the Twenty-First CenturyLyu Houliang13. Chinese Scholarship on Feudalism and Medieval StudiesLi Longguo14. The Rise and Transformation of World History in ChinaXin Fan 15. Chinese Studies of Western HistoriographyZhang Yibo16. Writing American History: Politics, Problems and Prospect (2003-24)Sun Hongzhe17. From Elite Politics to Grassroots Politics: Studies on the Social History of the PRCHanchao LuPart IV New AdvancesIntroduction 18. Historiography of Chinese GenderBret Hinsch19. Ming-Qing Historiography in the PRC, Taiwan and Japan since 1949Puk Wing Kin20. The Historiography of the Opium War: An International Perspective (2000-2024)Tu Hanzhang21. Postwar Japanese Diplomacy: An Analysis of Historiographical Developments in JapanAono Toshihiko and Fujita Goro22. The Nation and Beyond: Writing National History in ChinaZhang Xupeng23. Current and Future Horizons of Chinese Environmental HistoryFei Sheng and James BeattieGlossary and Index

“This corpulent volume duly informs us that the past, in its unmediated state, is often not a matter of mere nostalgia and bathos. It is history, an intellectual endeavor requiring evidence, inventiveness, and empathy, that renders the past intelligible as true insight into the cultural bequest that we owe to our forebears. The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography promises to serve as our companionable guide to the multifarious ways in which East Asian historians throughout the ages have confected desiderata from the amorphous pasts into meaningful narratives about the processes and values of human lives.”- On-Cho Ng, Penn State University“This is a valuable contribution to the field that fills a massive hole in our historiographical knowledge.”- Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University