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In 1976, towards the end of the Cultural Revolution, even scholars previously praising the Revolution could not help feeling disappointed. This disappointment led to the emergence of new methodologies... in the research on modern China. While working as a visiting professor at Berkeley (1979-1981), Sato Shinichi was impressed by how well developed Chinese Studies were in the USA. He translated Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past, which was published in 1988. In his afterword, he explains that Cohen was influenced by Said's Orientalism, published in 1978. Since Sato had no prior experience with the methodology of Chinese Studies, he was greatly influenced by the book he had translated. This paper will examine the role Sato Shinichi and Mizoguchi Yuzo played in the China research methodology discussion in Japan in the 1980 s. Furthermore, I try to show that although after the translation and publication of the book Discovering History in China Cohen and Mizoguchi were thought to be likeminded (both regarding spontaneous change as important), Mizoguchi differed from Cohen in his critical stance towards the issues of superiority and inferiority.show more
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