Book Reviews on New Historiography (1996--1997)

Author: Joint Working Group of Seven Journals on Book Reviews in History
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This is a selection of reviews on historical works, featuring outstanding contributions, including discussions on Yu Ying-shih and Liu Ts'ao. It represents a series of intellectual dialogues between historians, grounded in both ideas and materials, with evaluations that are notably fair and balanced. The reviews cover topics such as social relations and foreign relations during the late Qing period, as well as the challenges faced by historians and explorations of historiographical methods—all expressed through individual essays. Most of these papers are excerpted from authoritative journals on historiography, making them highly convincing. This is a selection of reviews on historical works, featuring outstanding contributions, including discussions on Yu Ying-shih and Liu Ts'ao. It represents a series of intellectual dialogues between historians, grounded in both ideas and materials, with evaluations that are notably fair and balanced. The reviews cover topics such as social relations and foreign relations during the late Qing period, as well as the challenges faced by historians and explorations of historiographical methods—all expressed through individual essays. Most of these papers are excerpted from authoritative journals on historiography, making them highly convincing.