Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065638

Zusammenfassung

In recent years historians in China have begun questioning Western models of historiography. The current efforts of Chinese researchers to make their publications available in English translation is part of their ambitions to (rightfully) criticize Eurocentrism, to pursue a deimperialization of knowledge production and to disseminate (also as part of soft power policy) a more Chinese understanding of history and culture on a global scale. So far, these ambitions have been discussed intensively in sinology, yet as they address the global community of historians their academic significance goes ...