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National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng, and Guoxue jikan

National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng,... © Koninklijke Brill NV. Leiden 2003 Historiography East & West 1:2 National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng , and Guoxue jikan Tze-ki Hon State University of New York at Geneseo Keywords: National Essence, Culture, Iconoclasm, Conservatism, Chinese Nation Abstract: This article examines historical writings of early twentieth-century China from the perspective of the nation. In part one, I compare the historical writings in Guocui xuebao (Journal of National Essence, 1905-1912) and Xueheng (Critical Review, 1922-1933). In current scholarship, historians who pub- lished in these two journals are often considered to be cultural conservatives who rejected modernity. To challenge this view, I compare the ways these two groups of historians envisioned post-imperial China. The Guocui histori- ans wanted to win the support of Han Chinese to revolt against the Manchu Dynasty. To achieve this goal, they promoted racial nationalism and defined China as the nation-state of the Han race. In contrast, two decades later, historians associated with Xueheng envisioned China as based on a communal bond developed over centuries of acculturation and socialization. Instead of racial genealogy, they used “culture” ( wenhua ) to articulate a multi-ethnic identity for twentieth-century Chinese. National Essence http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historiography East and West Brill

National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng, and Guoxue jikan

Hon, Tze-ki
Historiography East and West , Volume 1 (2): 242 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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© Koninklijke Brill NV. Leiden 2003 Historiography East & West 1:2 National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng , and Guoxue jikan Tze-ki Hon State University of New York at Geneseo Keywords: National Essence, Culture, Iconoclasm, Conservatism, Chinese Nation Abstract: This article examines historical writings of early twentieth-century China from the perspective of the nation. In part one, I compare the historical writings in Guocui xuebao (Journal of National Essence, 1905-1912) and Xueheng (Critical Review, 1922-1933). In current scholarship, historians who pub- lished in these two journals are often considered to be cultural conservatives who rejected modernity. To challenge this view, I compare the ways these two groups of historians envisioned post-imperial China. The Guocui histori- ans wanted to win the support of Han Chinese to revolt against the Manchu Dynasty. To achieve this goal, they promoted racial nationalism and defined China as the nation-state of the Han race. In contrast, two decades later, historians associated with Xueheng envisioned China as based on a communal bond developed over centuries of acculturation and socialization. Instead of racial genealogy, they used “culture” ( wenhua ) to articulate a multi-ethnic identity for twentieth-century Chinese. National Essence

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Historiography East and West – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2003

Keywords: CHINESE NATION; CONSERVATISM; NATIONAL ESSENCE; CULTURE; ICONOCLASM

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