History, Ethics and Faith in China

For two recent publications on the social and cultural side of notions of time and history see

1. Yulia Frumer: Clocks and Time in Japan (Princeton: PhD 2012), for a review see http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/5353, see also  http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_Frumer_Astronomical
2. A comparable book recently came out in China, see 湛晓白: 时间的社会文化史——近代中国时间制度与观念变迁研究 (社会科学文献出版社, 2013). For a review see http://www.guoxue.com/?p=16052.