改革开放以来的中国近代史发展主线研究

The Main Trends of Research in the History of Modern China since the Reform and Opening Up

关于中国近代史的发展主线,在五四之后其刚萌生为一个学科时就有不同观点,20世纪三四十年代又有新的变化,50年代曾出现相对集中的讨论。改革开放30年间的讨论则较过去有较大的拓展:一是时间长,参加人数广;二是涉及到近代史许多重大事件和关系全局的问题;三是提出了十几种不同观点,产生了新的史观,还触及研究方法等。通过这场讨论,过去那种单一的以阶级斗争为纲的僵化模式得以纠正,比较自由、包容、多元的学术环境初步确立。这也是改革开放的社会变革在近代史学界的一个值得传承的成果。

On the main trends of research in modern history of China, different ideas appeared when it became a research field shortly after the May 4th Movement. There were some changes in the 1930s and 1940s, and some relatively concentrated discussions in the 1950s. But the major fruits are in the period of reform and opening up. First, it lasted 30 years and had many participants. Second, it involved many major events and key issues. Third, it resulted in more than a dozen new ideas, theories and methods. Now we are in a free, tolerant, multilayered academic atmosphere thanks to the reform and opening up starting from 1978.