The Historian's Meridian: A Collection of Historical Psychology Essays

Author: Sun Longji (USA)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: From a Sino-Western comparative perspective, it is found that Chinese and Western cultures are deeply interconnected. This book selects numerous articles written over the years by the renowned Chinese scholar Sun Longji, author of The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture. It not only focuses on Lu Xun but also examines the "third gender" in American popular culture and Eastern people, presenting well-supported arguments that are compelling. Sun Longji, whose ancestral home is in Zhejiang, was born in Chongqing in 1945 and grew up in Hong Kong. He received his university education in Taiwan and obtained a master's degree in history from National Taiwan University. Later, he pursued further studies in the United States, earning a master's degree in Russian history from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in East Asian history from Stanford University (during which he studied at Fudan University in Shanghai for a year). He has taught at universities in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. His research interests are broad, with numerous published papers and important works such as The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture and The Chinese National Character From Nationhood to Individuality. Especially noteworthy is The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture. In this book, the author uses structuralist methods to observe the fundamental structure of Chinese cultural behavior in the concrete details of daily life, attempting to view Chinese culture from another perspective. He analyzes the design of the "person" in Chinese culture, arguing that the individual in China is defined by the group, differing from the Western definition of the individual. This book was first published in the 1980s and had a wide influence in China at the time, spreading in photocopied form among many universities. The author is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of Memphis in the United States. From a Sino-Western comparative perspective, it is found that Chinese and Western cultures are deeply interconnected. This book selects numerous articles written over the years by the renowned Chinese scholar Sun Longji, author of The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture. It not only focuses on Lu Xun but also examines the "third gender" in American popular culture and Eastern people, presenting well-supported arguments that are compelling.