24 août 2018
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blitstein, « MAS Applied history course: "East Asia - Making the Past in Asia" », East Asian Uses of the European Past, ID : 10.58079/nzle
Representations of the past - as tradition, memory, heritage, and myth - play a central role in the self-definition of cultures, nations and societies. This course analyses how such representations were formed, reshaped, and contested in modern and contemporary East Asia. Our aim is to disentangle the interests, concerns, and anxieties that informed Chinese and Japanese answers to the question of historical continuity since the age of the European expansion. In our joint investigations, we w...