Reinventing modern China: imagination and authenticity in Chinese historical writing

Abstract

Origins of the modernization narrative : nationalist historiography before 1949 -- Origins of the revolutionary narrative : Marxist historiography before 1949 -- The making of a new orthodoxy : Marxist historiography in the 1950s -- Between the past and the present : the radicalization of historiography under Mao -- Challenging the revolutionary orthodoxy : "new enlightenment" historiography in the 1980s -- From revolution to modernization : the paradigmatic transition in Reform Era historiography -- Master narratives in crisis