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"L'intelligence du passé": Glimpses of Truth in Times of Darkness

The life and scholarship of Zhang Zhilian provide a prism through which the author reflects upon the role of truth in the practice of history. Drawing upon traditional Chinese scholarship that stretches back to the Han dynasty official Sima Qian and forward in time to twentieth-century innovators of the historian's craft such as Fu Sinian and Chen Yinke, this essay highlights Professor Zhang Zhilian's own efforts to carefully and critically re-humanize the past.