World History and National Identity in China

Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

• List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Control and Resistance: The Social Production of World History under the Influence of Radical Politics; 1. The Confucian Legacy: World-Historical Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 2. The Cultural Destiny: Nationalism and World History in Republican China; 3. Becoming the “World”: World Historians in the Early People's Republic; 4. The Forced Analogy: Control, Resistance, and World History in the 1950s; 5. Imagining Global Antiquity: Continuity, Transformation, and Word History in Post-Mao China; Conclusion: World History and the Value of the Past; List of Characters; Bibliography; Index

'World history writing has had a strong presence in China throughout the twentieth century, serving as a powerful resource to counter narrow nationalism. As Xin Fan expertly shows, Chinese historians have made important contributions that continue to resonate with the current debate about non-Eurocentric forms of global history.' Sebastian Conrad, Free University Berlin