Preface / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Religious claims of truth versus critical method - some general remarks on a complex relationship in western tradition / Petra Bahr 1
Language change in premodern China - notes on its perception and its impact on the idea of a "constant way" / Wolfgang Behr 13
Poetry and religion : the representation of "truth" in early Chinese historiography / Martin Kern 53
Normativity and history in warring states thought. The shift towards the anthropological paradigm / Heiner Roetz 79
Truth claims in Shiji / Stephen Durrant 93
Why has the question of truth remained an open question throughout Chinese history? / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer 115
Criteria of historical judgment / Jorn Rusen 133
Some notions of historical judgment in China and the west / Kai Vogelsang 143
Platitude and persona : Junzi comments in Zuozhuan and beyond / David Schaberg 177
Speeches and the question of authenticity in ancient Chinese historical records / Yuri Pines 197
The past as a messianic vision : historical thought and strategies of sacralization in the early Gongyang tradition / Joachim Gentz 227
Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi : testing the boundary between worldly and otherworldly facts / Thomas H. C. Lee 255
The rise of historical criticism and the process of professionalization in historical studies in Europe - the case of Germany / Horst Walter Blanke 289
Ideology and history : Yao Jiheng's critical scholarship and the ideology of new historical science (Xin Shixue) / Kai-Wing Chow 337
What makes a good historian : Zhang Xuecheng's postulate of "moral integrity" (Shi De) revisited / Achim Mittag 365
Ideology and truth claims in Korean historiography of the "empirist school" / Marion Eggert 405
History and truth in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik 421
Between normative and individualizing didactics : Suzhi Jiaoyu as a new term in Chinese theories of history teaching / Nicola Spakowski 465
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