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Information

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2023

ISBN

9780824894580

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

Chinese History

Index

History

Contents
Introduction: Time, Text, and History in China
1 Tulišen’s Embassy to Distant Territories: The Travels of a Text
2 Struggles over the Historical Memory of a Heterodoxy: Chinese Commentaries on the Nestorian Stele
3 How Much Does an Understanding of History Help? Naitō Konan’s Reading of “Communism” in China
4 To “Turn the Historical Clock Back”: Past, Text, and the Politics of Yuan Shikai’s Monarchy
5 Wenxue and New Practices of Writing in Post-1840 China
6 Cai Yuanpei’s Politico-Philosophical Languages
7 Vernacular Knowledge in Time: Sinology outside the Archive
8 In Search of a Standard National Language in Republican China
9 A Guangxu Renaissance? Manchu Language Studies in the Late Qing and Their Republican Afterlife
10 The Textual Time Machine: Truth, Facts, and the Shuowen, 1770–1932
11 A Time to Heal or a Time to Kill: Confessions in the Anti-Shaman Campaign at Communist Yan’an, 1944–1945
Bibliography
Contributors
Index