| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang. Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawai|jUi Press. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 306. $50.00.

Its modest length is deceptive, for this book offers a comprehensive, engaging, and nuanced survey of historical practice in traditional China while eluding the pitfalls common to works with multiple authors. On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang draw on recent Chinese, Japanese, and Western secondary scholarship to survey two millennia of historical writing and criticism, starting with the classical period and continuing into the Qing dynasty. Their book is chronologically organized around the major dynastic epochs to highlight the "dominant modes" for each period and the impact of political and cultural developments on historical practice (p. xxii).

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