一部力透史家情怀与史学认知之作——《转折——以早期中英关系和〈南京条约〉为考察中心》解读

A work strongly expressing historiographer's feelings and thoughts on historiography——comment on <a turn——taking early relations between China and Britain and <Nanjing Treaty> as central research>

史学著作贵客观公允,这已是治史学人之共识。然这一研究取向并不排拒史家情感之表达。其实,一部堪称上乘的史学论著,不仅要能够尽可能准确地还原历史原貌,尽可能客观地评价历史人物与历史事件,从而得出令人信服的历史结论,而且要能够透过其述论,较全面深入地展示史家的史学情怀与史学认知。郭卫东教授的近著《转折——以早期中英关系和<南京条约>为考察中心》,正是这样一部力透作者的强烈的爱国情怀与深邃的史学认识的史学代表作,是近些年来中国近代史研究的重要成果。

Works on historiography are valued for their objectivity and impartiality. This is a common cognition of historian. But this research aim does not repel the expression of historiographer＇s feelings. In fact, if a work on historiography can be called tip-top one, it not only should return history to be the original condition as accurate as possible, evaluate historical persons and event as objective as possible, thus can make convincing conclusions, but should express historiographer＇s feelings and thoughts on historiography comprehensively and in depth by its narrations and arguments as well. Guo Wei-dong＇s a recent work, 〈a turn taking early relations between China and Britain and 〈Nanjing Treaty〉 as central research〉, do be a representative one expressing author＇s strong patriotic feelings and profound thoughts on historiography, and an important achievement in studies on modern Chinese history in recent years.