ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether and to what extent the Chinese Japan hands applied these innovations in their own studies on Japanese history. However, the analysis must transcend a demonstration of continuity and change in the Chinese historiographical discipline. The way in which Chinese historiography was conducted in the past had mirrored how the Chinese conceived themselves as a political and cultural entity. The orientation of Chinese historiography toward utility and practical applicability could look back on a long tradition in China. The Chinese intelligentsia of the early 1920s considered the introduction of a “new culture,” which included such markedly political goals as preparing the ground for democratic forms of government, a panacea for China’s ills. The Chinese blamed the new schools of thought for developing an ideology that provided essentially a carte blanche to the Japanese imperialists in the 1930s. The Chinese Japan hands observed several changes that affected late feudal Japan.
