Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider
[1] Time, history, and moral responsibility
Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai
Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy
Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider
Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge
[2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future
An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima
The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
[3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history
Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu
Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee
[4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries
Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon
Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.