旧典新命:方志学科建设刍议

Old Classics and New Vitality: Discipline Construction of Chorography

目前,方志学仍隶属于历史学下之专门史,为三级学科。地位低下,导致学科构建不健全、学术研究不深入、人才培养后继乏力、研究队伍薄弱等一系列问题,学术研究难以为志书编纂提供足够的理论支持,成为方志事业进一步发展的瓶颈。如能提升方志学科为二级学科,从方志理论、志书编纂、旧志整理、地情研究、年鉴编写5个方面构建方志学科,深入研究方志理论和志书编纂实践中存在的各种亟待解决的问题,必能提升志书编纂的质量,促进方志学科的发展。

At present, chorography, which still belongs to special history, is the third discipline. The low status leads to a series of problems, such as imperfect discipline construction, superficial academic research, inadequate talent cultivation, weak research team, etc. It is difficult for the academic research to provide adequate theoretical supports for the compilation of local chronicles, this has become the bottleneck for the further development of local chronicles. If chorography can be the second discipline, and be constructed from five aspects like the theory of local chronicles, the compilation of local chronicles, the arrangement of old local chronicles, the researches on local districts and the compilation of almanacs, the theory of chorography and the problems in the practice of the compilation of local chronicles can be researched deeply, then the quality of the compilation of local chronicles must be enhanced and the development of the discipline will be promoted as well.