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The Historical Vision of the Prosperous Age ( shengshi 盛世 )

The remarks published in that issue were developed on the basis of a roundtable organised for the annual conference of The Association for Asian Studies (AAS). That forum, held in Honolulu on 31 March 2011, resulted of the best kind of intellectual discussion—one initiated over good food and wine. That earlier exchange had taken place following a workshop on knowledge production and Chinese Studies organized by our colleague Wen-hsin Yeh at the Berkeley campus of the University of California in May 2010. Wen-hsin closed the discussions with a meditation on writing Chinese history today in the international academy, its prospects, its limitations and its possibilities. She encouraged participants to contemplate the trajectories of historiography as the Chinese academy (and its officially funded research) grew in prominence and volubility; she asked us to consider too how our own practice as researchers and educators would embrace what should, by all accounts, be the intellectual rise of China, one concomitant with its burgeoning global economic status.