ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the interest of Chinese historians in being in harmony with an immanent world, and of growing into an understanding of that world by speaking, but more importantly, by being silent and therefore being open to and a part of it. It begins with needing to become reacquainted with metaphysics. The chapter shows historians speak out when harmony ossifies into social and political practices that suggest close mindedness to the immanent world. The chapter also shows a historiographical tradition that is interested in the immanent, which expresses views on how to discern the immanent, and which assumes it has a role in opening peoples' minds to an appreciation of the general sense of things. In sum, Chinese historiography points to, wrestles with and impugns our lack of respect for radical immanence, as against transcendence.
