从《中国近代史》看蒋廷黻的史学思想

View Jiang Ting-fu's Historical Ideas From Chinese Modern History

蒋廷黻是中国近代资产阶级史学家的重要代表,在抗战初期,他积极拥护国民党一党专政,其代表作《中国近代史》,集中体现了他的两大历史观。第一,通过评论近代中华民族救国救民族的历程,阐述了他要求中国学习西方,尽快走向近代化的近代化观。第二,通过对满清政府外交的评述,说明弱国如何开展外交。本文主要从近代化观与外交观来论述其史学思想。

As one of the most prominent personages of Chinese Capitalist class history in modern times, Jiang Tingfu endored the Kuomingdang＇ s one - party dictatorship with great enthusiasm during the Anti -Japanese War. The two major historical ideas were chiefly embodied in his representative work, Chinese Modern History. The first one is that by reviewing the course of Chinese nation＇ s self- saving, Jiang Tingfu expressed such an earnest request for modernization that Chinese people should learn from the West and approach modernization as fast as possible. The other point is reflected on his comments upon the diplomacy of the Qing government, Jiang discusses how to carry out the diplomatic policies far as a feeble and inferior country is concerned, Therefore, this article mainly discusses his historical ideas from the perspectives of modernization and diplomatic policies.