TRUTHFUL IS MORAL: PRACTICING ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY.
In recent years, efforts have been made to reevaluate the tradition of Chinese historical thought and writing. This article seeks to further these efforts and offer a new understanding of the characteristics of historical writing in traditional China. It argues that, at the level of practice, tradit...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=180703885&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 180703885 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00182656 HAT jtl: History & Theory issn: 00182656 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2024 vid: 63 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 180703885 10.1111/hith.12363 ppf: 85 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 161KB tig: atl: TRUTHFUL IS MORAL: PRACTICING ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY. aug: au: Wang, Q. Edward affil: Rowan University su: Chinese historiography Confucius, 551 B.C.-479 B.C. Sima, Qian, ca. 145 B.C.-ca. 86 B.C. Ouyang Xiu, 1007-1072 Sima Guang Zhu Xi, 1130-1200 Philosophy of history Historians sug: subj: Chinese historiography Confucius, 551 B.C.-479 B.C. Sima, Qian, ca. 145 B.C.-ca. 86 B.C. Ouyang Xiu, 1007-1072 Sima Guang Zhu Xi, 1130-1200 Philosophy of history Historians keyword: Confucius morality and history Ouyang Xiu Sima Qian Zhu Xi ab: In recent years, efforts have been made to reevaluate the tradition of Chinese historical thought and writing. This article seeks to further these efforts and offer a new understanding of the characteristics of historical writing in traditional China. It argues that, at the level of practice, traditional Chinese historians, like their counterparts in the rest of the world, were deeply concerned with establishing and communicating facts in historical writing. Their separation of commentary and narrative in order to practice "straight writing" of the latter is a telling example, one that evolved into an enshrined tradition over the long span of imperial China. At the theoretical level, Chinese historians also consciously explored the ways in which truthfulness in history could be reconciled with the ethical responsibilities they perceived and sought to assume in and for their time. This quest did not stop at the level of "praise and blame" for past personalities and events. Rather, their practice amounted to an effort, epitomized by the historical practice of the Song period (960–1279), to search for the metaphysics of historical morality, or the immanent and overarching principles that guide human society. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of History & Theory is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: History & Theory holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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