Mainland Chinese Historiography in Search of New National and Global Narratives

Autor(en)

Sebestyén Hompot, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Abstrakt

The present article is a discourse analysis of recent (2000-) mainland Chinese historiography on the Sinocentric tributary system of East Asian interstate relations during China’s Ming (1368-1644 CE) and Qing (1644-1912 CE) dynasties. The article focuses on various strands of Chinese nationalism in the discourse, classified as “rigid”/exclusionist, “soft”/cultural, and liberal. The article discusses the various roles played by these strands of nationalism in the discourse, and the possible future influences of tributary system historiography on China’s evolving self-perception as a nation-state, as well as a regional and global actor. The article argues that “soft”/cultural nationalism dominates the discourse with many authors emphasizing China’s supposed pre-modern culture of pacifist great power politics, implicitly or explicitly advocating the reference value of the topic for China’s present and future international relations.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften

Journal

Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung

Band

31

Seiten

249-266

ISSN

0940-3566

Publikationsdatum

11-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602045 Sinologie, 601023 Globalgeschichte

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/mainland-chinese-historiography-in-search-of-new-national-and-global-narratives(3aec1e19-082c-457a-9fc8-653e0fd66ab6).html