This article argues for a ‘history from between’ as the best lens through which to understand the construction of historical knowledge between East Asia and Europe. ‘Between’ refers to the space framed by East Asia and Europe, but also to the global circulations of ideas in that space, and to the subjective feeling of embeddedness in larger-than-local contexts that being in such a space makes possible. Our contention is that the outcomes of such entanglements are not merely reactive forms of knowledge, of the kind implied by older studies of translation and reception in global intellectual history. Instead they are themselves ‘co-productions’: they are the shared and mutually interactive inputs to enduring modes of uses of the past, across both East Asian and European traditions. Taking seriously the possibility that interpretations of the past were not transferred, but rather were co-produced between East Asia and Europe, we reconstruct the braided histories of historical narratives that continue to shape constructions of identity throughout Eurasia.

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导言：1600 年至 1950 年亚洲和欧洲过去的历史和全球流通

本文主张以“中间的历史”作为理解东亚和欧洲之间历史知识建构的最佳镜头。“之间”指的是东亚和欧洲所构筑的空间，但也指该空间中思想的全球流通，以及置身于这样一个空间中所带来的超越本土语境的主观嵌入感。我们的论点是，这种纠缠的结果不仅仅是知识的反应形式，这是全球思想史上对翻译和接受的较早研究所暗示的那种形式。相反，它们本身就是“联合制作”：它们是跨越东亚和欧洲传统的对过去的持久使用模式的共享和交互输入。