On Historical Time:From the Perspective of Comparison between Chinese and Western Historiography
The concept of historical time reflects human attitudes towards past history,current circumstances,and future destiny.The western academic community strives to transcend the concept of linear historical time and explore the possibility of plural historical time views using discourse analysis methods.This involves both thinking about the temporal expression of modernization and globalization processes,and exploring a historical time regime that can explain contemporary world changes.The Anthropocene has become the contemporary context of this exploration.Combining different historical backgrounds and contexts,six types of historical time can be diachronically distinguished:prototype time,cyclic time,linear time,modern historiography time,global historiographic time,and anthropocenic historiographic time.Based on the issues of contemporary academic concern,it is necessary to integrate diachronically and compare synchronically the cognition and thinking of his-torical time issues between China and the West,explain the commonalities and differences,and distinguish their historiographic value and historical meaning.
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