New Perspectives and Critiques in History: A Decade of Selected Books, 2016–2025 | Special 04
The Infinite Reading List, Season 22
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Zhang Xiangrong
About this program
What did public history teach us over the past decade?
Writer and critic Zhang Xiangrong looks back at historical writing and reading from 2016 to 2025. Beginning with the rise of public history, the series asks what it means to put history to use and why historical fiction still matters to contemporary readers.
The opening selection turns to Ma Boyong and The Lychees of Chang’an, exploring how fiction can restore texture, contingency, and individual experience to the past.