History. Understanding. Meaning

Author: Han Zhen, Meng Mingqi
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Historiography is the understanding, interpretation, and comprehension of past events. Historical facts differ from present facts; they are not present in their current state. The object of historiography is not the present existence. People must rely on texts, symbols, and other remnants of human activities, through analysis, reasoning, and imagination, to reconstruct past events. This book examines historical interpretation from multiple perspectives.