Chinese Historical Thinking：An Intercultural Discussion

Foreword
Huang Chun-chieh and Jörn Rüsen
Introduction

I. Presentations
Huang Chun-chieh
1. Historical Discourses in Traditional Chinese Historical Writings: Historiography as Philosophy

Huang Chun-chieh
2. Historical Thinking as Humanistic Thinking in Traditional China

Wong Young-tsu
3. Humanism in Traditional Chinese Historiography – With Special Reference to the Grand Historian Sima Qian

Hu Chang-Tze
4. On the Transformation of Historical Thinking in Modern China

II. Comments
Achim Mittag
5. Cultural Differences as an Inspirational Source of Historical Knowledge – Random Notes on Three Approaches to Chinese Comparative Historiography

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
6. Ancient Historiographies Compared

Peter Burke
7. Two Traditions of Historiography

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
8. Humanistic Tradition and the Concept of a “National History” in China

Stefan Berger
9. National History and Humanism: Reflections on a Difficult Relationship

Jörn Rüsen
10. Commenting on Chinese Historical Thinking – a Multifaceted Approach

Ulrich Timme Kragh
11. Dogmas of Superficiality: The Episteme of Humanism in Writings by Taiwanese Historians Huang Chun-chieh, Wong Young-tsu, and Hu Chang-Tze

III. Second Thoughts
Ng On-cho
12. Enshrining the Past in the Present: Moral Agency and Humanistic History

Q. Edward Wang
13. The Great Divergence in Historiography – Reflections on Chinese and Western Historiographical Developments

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
14. Some Comments on the Difficulty of Engaging in Intercultural Dialogue

IV. Responses
Huang Chun-chieh
15. Some Notes on Chinese Historical Thinking

Wong Young-tsu
16. Historical Thinking East and West – Let the Twain Meet

Hu Chang-Tze
17. Giving Modern Chinese Historical Thinking Back its Authenticity

Huang Chun-chieh/Jörn Rüsen
18. A Final Remark

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index