"global History" In The Study Of Chinese History

Since rising from the middle of the 20th century, global history not only brought very much of a new perspective to the traditional historiography, but a brand new method with which we could add to the existent ways of compiling our own world history. Some of the already published works in this specific area have concentrated on Chinese history with new historical views never touched upon before, trying to conclude Chinese history as an organic part of global history. Some works that "Global History", "Rise of the West"," New Global History" will use a global perspective on Chinese history. They emphasize on cross-regional comparison and cross-border interaction. They will enable the study of Chinese history more depth and breadth. There are also scholars who achieved new accomplishments with their Chinese history concentration and global historical view. For example, the study of history in region, the Chinese historians look at Chinese history in the context of East Asia or Asia so as to re-understand the history of relations between China and Europe. In the study of social and economic history, "California School" compared the differences between Chinese and Western path of development in the global view, placed Chinese history in the scope of world history and stressed the importance of Chinese history in world history that revealed the unique historical development of China. The historians study the environmental history of China in the global history. From environmental factors, human activities and environmental awareness point of view, they find the common and differences between China and the world so that expand the understanding of human history. This paper manages to look through these works and thesis, closely examine how they used the global historical view to look at Chinese history, and what impact the historical view of global history and the theory of it has on the study of Chinese history.