ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several cases of "rediscovery" of earlier historians by both Chinese and Japanese historians, argues why Ts'ui and others were seen as so vital by their revivers, considers possible Sino-Japanese connections, and discusses the importance of the rediscovery effort. The excitement that greeted Ts'ui Shu's rediscovery in Japan found a parallel twenty years later in China. "Rediscovery" may be possessed of a largely self-serving objective totally unrelated to the normal usage of the term. Yet, the Chinese editors clearly knew of Naka's work and even praised it here and there. In his 1923 article, Hu Shih stated plainly that, as a result of Naka's work, "Chinese gradually came to know that such a man as Ts'ui Shu has lived." The marked differences between Chang and Ts'ui were topics for specialized research and thus irrelevant to the overall project of revival.
