梁启超的中国民族史研究及其对中国民族史学科发展的贡献

Liang Qichao's Study of the Chinese Ethnic History and Its Contribution to the Development of the Discipline

在20世纪初期中国边疆危机和民族危机的大背景下,梁启超开始了中国民族史研究。其目的是想激活中国人的自觉意识、激发中国人的爱国精神,但客观上却在民族概念、民族源流、民族关系研究等方面取得了众多学术成果,为中国民族史学科的建设和发展作出了重大贡献。他最早提出中国民族史的学科概念,把民族史作为中国史研究的核心,认为中华民族的起源是多元的,中国各民族共同创造了中国历史。

Liang Qichao started his s.tudy on the Chinese ethnic history in a time of the frontier and ethnic crises in early 20th centUry, intending to activate the self consciousness and patriotism of the Chinese people. Actually, his efforts led to the academic achievements in the concept of ethnicity or nationality, the root and flow of ethnicity or nationality, and ethnic relations, which has made great contributions to the establishment and development of the discipline, the Chinese ethnic history. He was the first who had proposed that the Chinese ethnic history should be a discipline. Further, he advocated that ethnic history was the core of the study on the Chinese history, and held that the Chinese nation originated from different sources and that all the ethnic groups had created the history of China.