Project

The development and Impact of the Sinicization Concept in the Chinese Historiography of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Code
01D21608
Duration
01 October 2008 → 19 April 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Asian history
    • Socio-economic history
    • World history
Keywords
Chinese nation western creation of an image sinification
 
Project description

The present research focusses on the development of the sinification concept in the early twentieth century in China, and the way it influenced the Western world. The central topic is therefore the coming into being and the development of the idea of a 'Chinaese nation', as well in China, as in the image of China as it was spread in the West.