中华民族共同体建构的历史维度——20世纪30年代三本《中国民族史》的对比分析

The Historical Dimension of the Construction of the“Chinese Nation Community”——A Comparative Analysis of Three Editions of Chinese Ethnohistory in the 1930s

树立和铸牢中华民族共同体是我国民族团结和国家发展的重要基础,而“历史的书写”在建构共同体的过程中是一个非常重要的维度。自20世纪初,中国就开始了建构中华民族共同体的进程,当时有一批学者带着强烈的历史使命感,试图通过民族史研究来构建中国各民族的认同感,在历史中寻找中国作为一个中华民族共同体的合法性。本文选取20世纪30年代三本重要的《中国民族史》著作进行详细分析,来看不同学者是如何进行民族史的书写,以及是如何用历史的维度去看中华民族共同体的建构过程,他们的研究不仅对于当时内忧外患的中国具有重大意义,对当代理解中华民族共同体的形成和发展也有深远影响。

Establishing and founding the“Chinese Nation Community”is an important foundation for national unity and national development in China.The writing of history is a very important dimension in the process of building the community.Since the beginning of the 20th century,China has begun the process of building the Chinese nation community.At that time,a group of scholars with a strong sense of historical mission tried to build the sense of identity of Chinese nation through the study of ethnohistory,in order to find the legitimacy of“Chinese Nation Community”.This paper makes a detailed analysis of three important works on the Chinese ethnohistory in the 1930s to see how different scholars wrote the history and how they viewed the construction process of the“Chinese Nation Community”from a historical perspective.Their researches are of great significance not only to China with internal and external troubles at that time,but also to the formation and development of contemporary understanding of the“Chinese Nation Community”.