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This volume has four themes: "The Space of Awakening," "The Sorrow of Memory," "History in Memory," and "Colonial and Postcolonial Memory." It contains a total of 11 papers. The topics chosen are different, and the methods of entry are also different. They all face a real "absence"-the problem of how history is represented.

"Research on the History of Asian Concepts" is a historical collection published by the Xueheng Institute of Nanjing University in 2013. It is edited by Sun Jiang, a Yangtze River scholar, dean of the Xueheng Institute of Nanjing University, and distinguished professor of the Department of Political Science and School of History, School of Government, Nanjing University. Professor Sun Jiang is committed to studying China and the East Asian world from the 16th to the 20th century from the perspective of social history and intellectual history. His research methods involve many fields of humanities and social sciences. Representative studies include: modern social history, political history and intellectual history of China; memory studies, which focus on issues such as historical narrative, historical memory, and nationalism; conceptual history (ideological history), which examines the process of the migration of Western knowledge into China/East Asia from the perspective of global history and its variation; and the history of Japanese political thought, which mainly focuses on issues related to the "Kyoto School" and "modern overcoming". "Research on the History of Asian Concepts" mainly reveals the similarities and differences of modernity within the East Asian circle from the interactive relationship of concepts between different countries and regions. "Conceptual history" refers to a way of writing history based on universal ideas. From the perspective of concept history, concepts are expressed by words, but they have broader meanings than words; after certain social and political experience and meaning are accumulated in a specific word and represented, the word becomes a concept. Conceptual history focuses on the language and structure of texts, revealing the characteristics of the era through the study of dominant concepts in history. Researchers in the history of Asian concepts try to examine how Western concepts are translated into Chinese character concepts from a comparative perspective between the East and the West, as well as the interactive relationship between concepts in different countries and regions within the Chinese character circle, thereby revealing the similarities and differences of modernity within the East Asian circle.