The History of History in China

Undergraduate

From the earliest extant written evidence on bronze and bone archaeological materials to blockbuster films, creation myths, divination manuals, manifestos, cosmological treatises, ritual guides, and philosophical battles for legitimacy, this course explores how history has been written, recorded, and contested in the Chinese tradition. Sources of the pre-imperial, imperial, and post-imperial historical traditions of China will serve as rich material for a semester-long discussion on the nature of historiography: the practice and the theory of writing history. 0 Course cr HTBA