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USING the PAST
to SERVE
the PRESENT

Contemporary China Paper

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Australian National University

Series Editor: Jonathan Unger,
Australian National University

DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN CHINA
A Quarter Century Guide
Malcolm Lamb

USING THE PAST TO SERVE THE PRESENT
Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China
Edited by Jonathan Unger

THE PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS IN CHINA
Reports from the Provinces
Edited by Jonathan Unger

Contemporary China Paper

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Australian National University

USING the PAST
to SERVE
the PRESENT

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Historiography and Politics
in Contemporary China

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JONATHAN UNGER, editor

An East Gate Book

First published 1993 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Using the past to serve the present :
historiography and politics in contemporary China /
Jonathan Unger, editor.
p. cm. (Contemporary China papers)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87332-747-0 (cloth). ISBN 0-87332-748-9 (pbk.)
1. ChinaHistoriography.
I. Unger, Jonathan.
II. Series.
DS734.7.U831993
951.0072dc20
93-15256
CIP

ISBN 13: 9780873327480 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780873327473 (pbk)

Contents

Jonathan Unger

Over the past decade, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, of which I was editor, has published a considerable number of stimulating papers on the politics of historiography in China. Each paper depicted an important facet of the topic, and by happy coincidence, over time the papers began to form a coherent whole. What has emerged is a series of nuanced, interrelated perspectives into the complexities of politically-charged historiography in China. And repeatedly, history-writing has been politically charged especially given the Chinese tradition of envisaging the past as a mirror in which the present, by analogy, can be viewed.

For this book, almost all of the papers have been rewritten and re-edited so as to integrate them yet better into the common overarching theme. Geremie Barm has contributed an excellent final chapter especially for the volume in order to round out this theme, by examining post-Mao history for the masses up through the first half of 1992. For this contribution he is owed a special debt of gratitude.

Elizabeth Kingdon, the Assistant Editor of the Journal, copy-edited and proofread the manuscript and provided the Index. Dianne Stacey, the Journals Production Manager, took responsibility for the volumes layout and production. Without them this book would never have appeared.

J.U.

Geremie Barm is a Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. His most recent book is New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices (co-edited with L. Jaivin).

Ralph Croizier is Professor of History at the University of Victoria in Canada. His books include Chinas Cultural Legacy and Communism and Art and Revolution in Modern China.

Tom Fisher is a Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He has contributed major articles to The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and to Chinese scholarly collections on Qing history and to Chinas Establishment Intellectuals (Hamrin and Cheek, editors).

Michael Godley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Monash University in Melbourne. His publications include Mandarin-Capitalist from Nanyang.

David Holm is Professor of Chinese at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China (1991) and is currently working on ritual theatre and peasant drama troupes in the Chinese countryside.

Lawrence R. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University and a Research Associate at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He is co-editor of Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict, The Basic Documents (M.E. Sharpe, 1990) and of Chinas Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989 (M.E. Sharpe, 1992).

Jonathan Unger is head of the Australian National Universitys Contemporary China Centre. His eight books include Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools and, most recently, Chen Village Under Mao and Deng (co-authored with Anita Chan and Richard Madsen, 1992) and, as editor, The Pro-Democracy Protests in China (M.E. Sharpe, 1991).

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Sinology at the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany. His books include The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies; Inside a Service Trade; and Studies in Contemporary Chinese Prose. He is currently finishing a book on the 3rd-century philosopher Wang Bi.

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik holds the Chair for Contemporary Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany. She specializes in modern Chinese intellectual history and politics. Currently she is conducting research on the beginnings of Marxism in China, focusing on the period between 1898 and 1924.

Tim Wright is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His publications include Coal Mining in Chinas Economy and Society, 18951937 and The Chinese Economy in the Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies and a number of related articles on modern Chinese social and economic history. He is currently working on the impact on China of the 1930s world depression.

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