中国近代史研究的早期开展：以清华学人为中心--兼论新史学的权势网络及治史形态

Tsinghua Scholars and Evolution of Modern China History Studies( 1920s- 1970s) ——From Luo Jialun to John K. Fairbank

罗家伦、蒋廷黻在留美时代就已初步形成"科学的史学"的基本观念,回国后分别在东南大学和南开大学通过中国近代史研究来推动"新史学"在中国扎根和成长;二人聚首清华联手缔造新史学的策源地。蒋廷黻在其任内正式建成了世界级史学团队,这一团队不仅完成了一系列高质量的学术成果,而且以一批实力派学人,深刻地影响了20世纪中后期中国近代史研究的进展。在此进程中,其学术形态也经历了繁覆的嬗变。此学术共同体的演进是中国近代史学科成长的典型缩影,亦高度浓缩了同期中国政治文化生态的蜕变。

Luo Jialun and Tingfu Fuller Chiang,two senior historians,are the founders of history community Tinsghua University in the first half of the 20th century. They came into contact with the New History at Columbia University around 1921 and simultaneously made a resolve to establish an academic centre to achieve academic independence and national rejuvenation as soon as possible. As ambitious Young Turk historians,they craved giving impetus to the growth of Scientific History relying on building a high-quantity history department. When all the attempts failed Luo fell back on Tsinghua and administer it in 1928. Shortly after that,once Tingfu Fuller Chiang was recruited to lead history department in 1929,Tinghua history community rose up and Modern China History Studies flared out. Henceforth this department was always be deemed the cradle of foremost modern China history researchers( famed for their initial studies and original accomplishment) until 1952. Among this team,the most representative figures are John K. Fairbank,Shao Xunzheng and Kuo Ting-yee. To some degree,the development of this history community sketchily illustrated the evolution of Modern China History Studies in the corresponding period in China. What's more,a galaxy of talents cultivated by this academic community made an appreciable difference to the scholarly standards and academic ecological environment form 1920s to 1970s,in China's Mainland,TaiWan and U. S. A.