探索中国当代史学思潮的变迁——王学典教授访谈录

Probing the changes of historical ideological trend in contemporary China——Interviewing conversation records with professor Wang Xue dian

从学术思潮角度来清理 1 949年以后的中国史学史是有相当合理性的。因为当一种学术倾向成为左右全局的“思潮”时 ,这种学术倾向事实上就具有了相当的意识形态属性 ,而脱离意识形态属性来谈论中国当代史学则会远离真相。 2 0世纪 80年代以前的中国史坛屈从于意识形态的控制 ,从 90年代开始 ,中国史学已基本上走出意识形态的笼罩 ,形成了多元化格局 :唯物史观派史学 ,西方式的社会科学化史学和所谓“国学”的复兴。这种三分天下的局面将会长期共存。中国史学要想融入世界史学主潮之中 ,必须加快学科整合的过程 ,抓紧调整现有的概念、范畴、术语。在目前背景下 ,《史学概论》课程的首要任务是训练学生的洞察力 。

It is fairly reasonable to sort out the history of Chinese historical studies post-1949 from academic trends of thought. A academic trend would in fact have ideology property when it becomes a “trend of thought” and masters overall situation, it would be far away from facts if contemporary Chinese history is discussed without contacting the ideology. Chinese history field yielded to the control of ideology before 1980s, but since 1990s, Chinese historical studies basically got rid of the control of ideology and formed a pluralism pattern including historical materialism, western history imbued by social sciences and the rejuvenation of so called “Chinese national culture”. This pattern,composed of separated triple parts,will last for a long time. In order to be merged into mainstream of world historical studies, Chinese historical study must speed the process of adjusting its concepts, scopes and terms. At the present, the main task of “introduction to history” course is to train students to gain insight, especially gain the insight into the society in which the students are involved.