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Mirroring the past : the writing and use of history in imperial China /

Ng, On Cho, 1953-

Mirroring the past : the writing and use of history in imperial China / Writing and use of history in imperial China On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005. - xxiii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index.

The Age of Confucius: the Genesis of History -- From the Warring States Period to the Han: The Formation and Maturation of Historiography -- The Age of Disunity: Proliferations and Variations of Historiography -- The Tang: The History Bureau and Its Critics -- The Song: Cultural Flourishing and the Blooming of Historiography -- The Jin and the Yuan: History and Legitimation in the Dynasties of Conquest -- The Ming: Flowering of Private Historiography and Its Innovations -- The Qing: Histories and the Classics.

9780824884338

2005008008


China--Historiography.

DS734.7 / .N4 2005

907/.2/051 / N576