预流、立场与方法——追寻文史研究的新视野

Prediction, Standpoint and Methodology: Pursuing a New Horizon of the Humanities

通过对学术史的回顾,本文讨论当下中国文史学界,可以如何通过改变研究视野、研究立场以及研究方法,来开拓传统文史研究的新局面。作者尝试提出:第一,从周边看中国,可以改变过去以自我为中心想象天下的时代和以西方为唯一镜子的时代的中国自我认识;第二,通过对海外中国学的批评和研究,了解他们与中国本土研究者在方法和思路上的差异,可以明确中国文史研究的问题意识和自觉立场;第三,提倡交错的文化史研究,可以避免研究领域和研究资料的偏狭。以上构想,也许可以拓展文史研究的新视野,追寻中国文化和历史研究的新资料、新方法和新典范。

With a review of the academic history, this paper discusses how to explore a new horizon of traditional humanities through a change of research vision, standpoint and methodology. The author argues that firstly, a circumjacent perspective can change the self-recognition of China in the times of self-conceit or westemization; secondly, to study and criticize overseas Sinology and to pinpoint the differences between the researchers at home and those aboard, we can define the problem consciousness and standpoint in Chinese hurnanities; thirdly, a cross-research of cultural history can avoid the narrowness both in research field and in the choice of documents. This proposition might well broaden the vision of the humanities and help to pursue new materials, methods and types of Chinese humanities.