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5 - Imagining Global Antiquity

Continuity, Transformation, and World History in Post-Mao China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2021

Xin Fan
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Fredonia
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World history, like most academic disciplines, stagnated during the Cultural Revolution. This chapter argues that, with Mao’s death, world-historical studies witnessed a new wave of professionalization within the Marxist ideological framework. Following the liberalization of historical studies in the late 1980s, this ideological framework collapsed – even historians who were famous for their ideological correctness like Lin Zhichun abandoned it. In a series of influential debates, these historians searched for alternative paths to global modernity to replace the Eurocentric schema in Marxist historiography. Through this process, these former Marxist historians became increasingly nationalistic, which filled an ideological vacuum in post-Mao China.

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World History and National Identity in China
The Twentieth Century
, pp. 153 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Imagining Global Antiquity
  • Xin Fan
  • Book: World History and National Identity in China
  • Online publication: 19 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903653.006
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  • Imagining Global Antiquity
  • Xin Fan
  • Book: World History and National Identity in China
  • Online publication: 19 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903653.006
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  • Imagining Global Antiquity
  • Xin Fan
  • Book: World History and National Identity in China
  • Online publication: 19 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903653.006
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