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Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History

Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/29/4/675/1194603/675lanza.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 Fabio Lanza Personally, I have always thought that writing history is a political act — and I have always acted on that principle. Almost all China historians in US aca - demia — and for sure all the historians contributing to this special issue— have been trained within or in proximity to Asian studies departments; we were provided with rigorous language preparation and have all had more than a passing acquaintance with what is unfortunately still called “sinol- ogy,” meaning the study of “China” as an enclosed, foreign, and distant object. Given that context, Chinese history might look more prone than other national histories to indulge in the curious, the anomalous, or at best the irrelevant: topics such as the horse trade during the Mongol empire and porcelain production in the Ming period are indeed fascinating, but they probably sound, correctly or not, very remote from any contemporary political relevance. Of course, there are also stratie fi d intellectual, racial, positions 29:4 doi 10.1215/10679847-9286649 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/29/4/675/1194603/675lanza.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 positions 29:4 November 2021 676 and political http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions Duke University Press

Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History

Lanza, Fabio
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/29/4/675/1194603/675lanza.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 Fabio Lanza Personally, I have always thought that writing history is a political act — and I have always acted on that principle. Almost all China historians in US aca - demia — and for sure all the historians contributing to this special issue— have been trained within or in proximity to Asian studies departments; we were provided with rigorous language preparation and have all had more than a passing acquaintance with what is unfortunately still called “sinol- ogy,” meaning the study of “China” as an enclosed, foreign, and distant object. Given that context, Chinese history might look more prone than other national histories to indulge in the curious, the anomalous, or at best the irrelevant: topics such as the horse trade during the Mongol empire and porcelain production in the Ming period are indeed fascinating, but they probably sound, correctly or not, very remote from any contemporary political relevance. Of course, there are also stratie fi d intellectual, racial, positions 29:4 doi 10.1215/10679847-9286649 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/29/4/675/1194603/675lanza.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 positions 29:4 November 2021 676 and political

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