HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Essentialism, Peter C. Perdue, Dzungar People
15 Feb 2017
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Tutorial 4: writing the national history of conquest. Key terms: nationalism, promote national identity, superior ideals, nation/state is the most important, xed idea of national identity, xed borders, etc. * nationalistic views distort history ii: national identity i. symbols, ideals, ex. Natural consequences i. a reason or explanation for something in function of its end, purpose, or goal. Perdue: how history has been written (problematic): predestined, deterministic path; the rebellion to expand china was justi ed because it led to the china we have today, it was justi ed, etc. 4 problems: teleology, moral evaluation (attack of character/personality instead of actual actions and intentions; due to nationalism, essentialism (different ethnic groups falling in natural borders all being called chinese, but it was very multiethnic [cantonese, mongolians, etc. ]) Argument: we need to be more objective, give each actor an equal evaluation (look at all points of view): agency.
