MSUM
Library
MSUM
Library
honors the 2006 promotion of
Henry Chan
History
Ng, On-Cho and Q. Edward Wang. Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
Dr. Chan chose this book because:
“Drawing on the twenty-four dynastic histories and recent Chinese, Japanese and Western scholarship, the authors succinctly present an analytical survey of two millennia of traditional Chinese historical criticism and writing, while eluding the common pitfalls of generalization, and the imposition of western terms on Chinese historical practice. The book fills a lacuna in the existing works on traditional Chinese historiography.”