Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060653

Zusammenfassung

Starting as an ambitious pursuit of bridging cultural boundaries, the Chinese study of world history has produced a powerful critique of ethnic biases in historical studies and offered meaningful alternative views of the world. However, despite its century long legacy, a great number of historians still considers world history as a subject that is both "foreign and irrelevant" in China today. This project studies the social positioning of world history in China and the challenges that are associated with this process. It contends that the troubled state of world history in China is nei...