Li Na: Seeing History: Public History in China, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Seeing History: Public History in China
- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 06/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783112214800
- Item number:
- 12243834
- Volume:
- 304 Pages
- Edition number:
- 25001
- Ausgabe:
- 1. Auflage
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 230 x 155 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 30.6.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely presenting a change in the patterns of participation in history-making. This book offers a sharply different view.
It contends, essentially, that public history represents more than a research domain within history or within any existing discipline, nor does it fit into any established narratives, but rather, a fundamental change of the entire process of history-making in China. In this process, the public is prosuming history. Public history makes obsolete the old structure for building and acquiring historical knowledge: it challenges the old assumptions, supersedes the rigid academic hierarchy, and stirs the imaginations of the multitudes. With an assemblage of case studies, this work makes a case for a system view of public history making, or public history(ing), and launches a concept, complex public history, i. e. public history(ing) as complex adaptive systems.
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