Introduction - Kristin Stapleton, Els Van Dongen, Xin Fan Part I. Overviews and Framing Chapters Chapter 1. The Daotong, Genealogy, and History: On the Sources of Chinese Intellectual History's Narrative Framework - GE Zhaoguang Chapter 2. Conceptualizing the Foreign Relations of Late Imperial China: The Interpretative Entanglement of Two Worldviews, 1880s-2020s - Yuanchong Wang Chapter 3. The Politics of Constructing the History of China's Foreign Relations in the PRC - Tansen Sen Chapter 4. Visions of History in Chinese Constitutional Law - Egas Bernard Bender De Moniz Bandeira Chapter 5. Corporeality and Conceptions of History: How Gender Changed the Experience of the Past and Present - Louise Edwards Chapter 6. Historical Imaginations of High Qing Emperors in Sinophone Popular Cultures - Fei-Hsien Wang Part II.

History in the Late-Qing Era Chapter 7. Chinese Historical Thinking and Civil Service Examinations in the Late 19th Century - Thomas H. C. Lee Chapter 8. "Official Periodicals" (Gazetteers, Gazettes, and Directories) and Qing History - Emily Mokros Chapter 9. Publishing and Communication in Late Qing China - Natascha Gentz Chapter 10. Memorials and Works of Commemoration in the Late Qing Period - Charles Desnoyers Chapter 11. History in Late-Qing Popular Culture - Igor Chabrowski Part III.

History in the Republican Era Chapter 12. The Development of the History Profession and its Relation to the State - Xin Fan Chapter 13. History Textbooks and Historical Education in Republican China - Jenny Huangfu Day Chapter 14. The Hope and Fear in Joining the Modern World: Changing Frameworks of Historical Analysis in Late Qing and Republican China - Tzeki Hon Chapter 15. Displaying History: Constructing National Heritage in Modern China - Peter Zarrow Chapter 16. Memorials and Commemorative Structures in the Republican Era - Linh Vu Chapter 17. National Humiliation and National Pride: History in Popular Culture during the Republican Period - Yajun Mo Part IV. History in the Maoist Era Chapter 18.

Changing Frameworks of Historical Analysis - Huaiyu Chen Chapter 19. Textbooks and History Education in the Maoist Era (1942-1978) - Marc Andre Matten Chapter 20. Ethnography as History-Chinese Ethnologists and the Construction of the Marxist Periodization Scheme of Chinese History - Xiaorong Han Chapter 21. Radical Pasts, Maoist Futures: History in the Cultural Revolution - Zachary Scarlett Chapter 22. Accusations and Confessions in Case Files - Man Zhang Part V. History in the Reform Era Chapter 23. Chinese Historiography during the Era of Reform and Opening - Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Chapter 24 Rethinking China's Past after China's Rise: Chinese Intellectuals and Modern China - David Ownby Chapter 25. Using the Past to Serve the Present - The Role of History in Post-Mao Chinese Nationalism - Robert Weatherley Chapter 26.

Museums and the Making of Public History in Post-Mao China: Reimagining the Chinese nation in the Overseas Chinese Museum - Cangbai Wang Chapter 27. Narrating History in Reform Era Chinese Cinema - Yiyang Hou Part VI. Border Histories Chapter 28: From China's Frontier to Frontier China - Xiaoyuan Liu Chapter 29: "Rediscovering" 2-28: Knowledge Production, Memorialization, and the Emergence of Taiwanese Nationalism - Evan Dawley Chapter 30: Historical Memory in Hong Kong: Agency under the shadow of empires - Gina Anne Tam Chapter 31: "History in Xinjiang: The Changing Nature and Resiliency of Historical Practices from the late Qing to the Present - Sandrine Catris Chapter 32: Popular Historical Narratives of Overseas Migration - Steven B. Miles.