{"product_id":"seeing-history-public-history-in-china-9783110996180","title":"Seeing History: Public History in China","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely presenting a change in the patterns of participation in history-making. This book offers a sharply different view. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt contends, essentially, that public history represents more than a research domain within history or within any existing discipline, nor does it fit into any established narratives, but rather, a fundamental change of the entire process of history-making in China. In this process, the public is prosuming history. Public history makes obsolete the old structure for building and acquiring historical knowledge: it challenges the old assumptions, supersedes the rigid academic hierarchy, and stirs the imaginations of the multitudes. With an assemblage of case studies, this work makes a case for a system view of public history making, or public history(ing), and launches a concept, complex public history, i.e. public history(ing) as complex adaptive systems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNa Li\u003c\/strong\u003e is a public historian and urban planning scholar. Her research focuses on public history and urban preservation. During her decade-long work in China, Na Li has pioneered the field of public history in China. She was appointed Research Fellow\/Professor at Department of History, Zhejiang University (2017-2022), and the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University (2012-2017). She is Founding Editor for \u003cem\u003ePublic History: A National Journal of Public History\u003c\/em\u003e (《公众史学》). She served on the Board of Directors for the National Council on Public History (2017-2020) and has written two books, \u003cem\u003eKensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto's Urban Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and \u003cem\u003ePublic History: A Critical Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (Peking University Press, 2019), which focus on public history and urban preservation. She is Associated Researcher, Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Walter de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457509200146,"sku":"9783110996180","price":133.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f7f32f9-3ec8-4782-ac13-acc0a9e38a11.jpg?v=1729931452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/seeing-history-public-history-in-china-9783110996180","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}