Here in ‘China’ I Dwell is a historiographical account of the formation of Chinese historical narratives in light of outside pressures on China — the view from China’s borders. There is a special discussion of the inf luence of Japanese historians on the concept of China and its borders, including the nature of their sources, cultural and religious and more. In Ge’s comparative account, a new portrait of Chinese historical narratives, along with the views and assumptions implicit in these narrat ives, emerges in the context of East Asia, a similarly constructed concept with its own multitudes of frontiers and peoples.

Ge Zhaoguang, M.A. (1984), Peking University, is Professor of History at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is widely published in Chinese, where he is especially well known for his three-volume 《中國思想史》(Zhongguo sixiang shi, An Intellectual History of China) (Fudan University Press, 2001).

Jesse Field, Ph.D. (2012), University of Minnesota, is a teacher, translator and writer in Beijing.

Qin Fang, Ph.D. (2012), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of History at Capital Normal University, Beijing. She is interested in women’s history and urban studies of modern China. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “In Search for Respectability: The Making of Women’s Education in Treaty Ports of China, 1898-1912.”