学术史视野下的北碚中国地理研究所（1940~1947）

The Academic Historical Research on the China Institute of Geography

抗战时期成立的北碚中国地理研究所是中国最早的专业地理研究机构。本文从学术史的角度系统梳理北碚中国地理研究所的成立缘起、组织结构、学术旨趣与研究方向等相关问题,并详细分析了其对中国近现代地理学发展起到的积极作用。可以说,北碚中国地理研究所的成立与发展不仅标志着中国近现代地理学学术体制的大致形成,还促进了中国近现代地理学研究的职业化进程,引领了中国近现代地理学的研究方向,奠定了地理学在现代学科体系中的地位。但其历史命运也证明:在现代中国,地理学研究机构的发展必须依靠政府的刚性支持。

The China Institute of Geography , which situated in Beibei area （北碚） of Chongqing and established during lhe period of Anti--Japanese War , was the first geography research institute in China. This paper discusses systematically its origin, organizational structure, the establishment of academic interest and research direction in the perspective of academic history, and makes a close anal- ysis of its positive influence on the development of Chinese modern geography. The establishment and development of this Institute of Geography, so to speak, not only marked the approximate form of modern Chinese geography academic institutions, but also to promote the professionalization process of Chinese Modern Geography, even led the research direction of Chinese Modern Geography, and laid the geography position in the modern discipline system. But, its historical destiny has proved that, The development of geography academic institutions must rely on the government＇s rigid support in Modern China.