林惠祥的史学贡献

Lin Huixiang's Contribution to Historical Science

作为人类学的"中国历史学派"的重要代表,林惠祥对历史学科的发展做出了较大贡献。他从20世纪30年代开始积极引介西方社会科学理论,倡导历史学要吸收人类学、考古学、民俗学等学科的理论和方法,为促进史学科学化,扩大历史学家的研究视野作出了努力。林惠祥等人为中国民族史研究构建了一整套新的研究和叙事模式,历史学、考古学与民族学理论方法相结合是这种模式的主要特征。林惠祥还开辟了台湾少数民族史、台湾与大陆关系史等学术新领域,丰富了中国史研究的内容。

Lin Huixiang is one of the main representatives of anthropologist ＂Chinese history school＂. He has made a significant contribution to the development of historical science. As early as the 1930s, he introduced west social sciences theory actively, proposed that the theory of history and the theory of the other social sciences such as anthropology, folklore and archaeology join together mutually, which was helpful to promoting the scientification of history and expanding historian＇ s study ken. Lin Huixiang and others have established a set of research pattern for the Chinese nationality history research, the principal character of this pattern is that history, archaeology and ethnology combine with each other. In the group of Chinese researchers, Lin Huixian started the study of Taiwan national minority history, he also studied the history of relationship between Taiwan and motherland firstly. These researches have enriched the content of history studies.