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China: Pax Manjurica
Author(s) -
NEWBY L. J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00454.x
Subject(s) - historiography , mainstream , china , construct (python library) , intellectual history , history , order (exchange) , cultural history , social science , sociology , political science , economic history , law , archaeology , finance , computer science , economics , programming language
This article looks at developments in Western historiography of eighteenth‐century China since the millennium. The opening of archives in the PRC and the development of online resources have facilitated new areas of study and continued the trend away from institutional and intellectual history and towards social and cultural history. Among the significant developments is the emergence of the ‘new Qing history’. The main debates and themes all have resonance in Western historical studies, but Eurocentric paradigms have invariably been rejected or significantly revised in order to construct culturally specific modes of analysis. These new interpretations are gradually filtering into mainstream writings and comparative studies.