Twentieth-century late China's history main trend

Author: Wang Xuedian
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: This manuscript primarily describes and interprets several guiding historiographical trends in Chinese historiography over the past forty years and the logical relationships among these trends. Here, historiographical trends refer mainly to currents that form due to the advocacy of certain historiographical doctrines, methods, or viewpoints. Historiographical viewpoints, methods, and doctrines can all form trends. Those that form trends are primarily those that, within a specific time period, capture the support of a significant portion of scholars and either challenge a highly influential idea in the historiographical field or counter-challenge the proponents of such ideas, methods, and doctrines.