ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the attempts of Chinese and British historians to provide a continuous and progressive national history for their nations. In the case of Britain, these intents included bridging the low points of previously existent periodization patterns: the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. These would come by the hand of authors such as William Stubbs, Edward Freeman, James Froude, or Albert Pollard. In China, on the other hand, adaptation to this new historical pattern was mediated by the reception of Western and Japanese influences. In the new context, Chinese historians struggled to square the new patterns of staged progressive evolution imported from these countries with their own native traditions of historiography.
