中国史研究中的后现代倾向

The Study of Chinese History in Post - Modern Perspective

在历史领域,后现代主义通过对现代西方史学及其历史观念的全面批判与反思,使人们日趋看到在现代性遮蔽下的历 史样貌,并逐步建构出一个后现代的历史观与方法论体系。90年代中期以来,美国史学界出现了一些具有明显后现代倾向的中 国史研究,为我们提供了将其史学实践与理论体系进行双向分析的可能。从此路径,我们大体可以窥见后现代主义在中国史领 域所具有的问题意识、研究视角以及应用的界限与限度。

In the field of history , post - modernism trends to expose the hidden history by modernity through criticizing or reflecting on modern western historiography and its ideas of history , meanwhile attempts to construct a consistent post - modern system about history and methodology. Since the mid - 1990's , there have been some typical studies in Chinese history with apparently post - modern perspective in American history ac-ademia , which make it possible for us to conduct a sort of bi - directional analysis between their practice and theories. In this way , we seem to observe how they apply post -modern perspective to put forward a series of new problems and to break through the old paradigm ; furthermore , these reduce us to thinking over what is the extent or limit of post - modernism in the study of Chinese history.