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The reception of the “New Qing History” in China: confrontation between global and nationalist historical narratives

The reception of the “New Qing History” in China: confrontation between global and nationalist... This paper aims to explore various tensions related to the diffusion and reception of the New Qing History (NQH) in China, and more specifically, it aims at underlying a recurrent tension within the core of this debate, between a Global and a Nationalist historical narrative.Design/methodology/approachThe author’s focus is to analyze various texts published in China between 2006 and 2018.FindingsThe author argues that the intensity of the current debate is partly related on the one hand, to the fact that NQH undermines various aspects of China’s Nationalist teleology and territorial claims and, on the other hand, to the basic difficulty of accepting the coexistence of various historical representations that are risking to weaken contemporary’s justifications of its rising schemes.Originality/valueThe text presents an original reading of some important issues raised by the NQH debate. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Transformations in Chinese Societies Emerald Publishing

The reception of the “New Qing History” in China: confrontation between global and nationalist historical narratives

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies , Volume 16 (2): 12 – Dec 10, 2020

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
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© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
1871-2673
DOI
10.1108/stics-04-2020-0013
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Abstract

This paper aims to explore various tensions related to the diffusion and reception of the New Qing History (NQH) in China, and more specifically, it aims at underlying a recurrent tension within the core of this debate, between a Global and a Nationalist historical narrative.Design/methodology/approachThe author’s focus is to analyze various texts published in China between 2006 and 2018.FindingsThe author argues that the intensity of the current debate is partly related on the one hand, to the fact that NQH undermines various aspects of China’s Nationalist teleology and territorial claims and, on the other hand, to the basic difficulty of accepting the coexistence of various historical representations that are risking to weaken contemporary’s justifications of its rising schemes.Originality/valueThe text presents an original reading of some important issues raised by the NQH debate.

Journal

Social Transformations in Chinese SocietiesEmerald Publishing

Published: Dec 10, 2020

Keywords: Historiography; Indigenization; New Qing history; Sinicization; World history

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