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SoSe 13: China and Global History

Klaus Mühlhahn, Xin Fan

Kommentar

The first decade of the twenty-first century has observed the rapid rise of global history as a historiographical genre. As an attempt to transcend the past narrowly-defined national boundaries, global history offers historians around the world an effective tool to examine how global/transnational forces shape our contemporary society. However, it remains crucial for us to understand how the knowledge of the local contributes to the development of global view in historical writing. In this class, we will take China as a case and together explore four major issues concerning the relationship between the field of China studies and that of global history. First, how did world/global history develop into a professional discipline in the People's Republic of China over the past century? Second, how do recent works in global history integrate China's past within a world-historical context? Third, to what extent is the field of China studies affected by the transnational/global approach? What are the most representative works that reflect the new influence? Lastly, how do China scholars attempt to address some global issues in their research and therefore contribute to the general development of global history? Through discussing those issues, this course will help students come to a better understanding of pros and cons of taking a global history as an approach in the study of history. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Di, 09.04.2013 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn
Xin Fan