近二十年来中国社会史研究述评

A Commentary of Research on Chinese Social History during the Past 20 Years

自觉建立社会史学的努力,国内从20世纪80年代开始。此后,中国社会史研究主要围绕着引进与建设两个方面展开。近二十年来,中国社会史研究领域又取得了一些新的进展,在理论探讨和研究实践上都取得了许多突破性成就,主要表现在三个方面:社会史理论的探索、新材料的开掘与使用以及研究视野的新拓展。就目前的研究看,社会史研究仍然存在着值得反思的问题,如社会史学的理论建构、"碎片化"的研究倾向、交叉学科的研究边界、断代史研究的平衡、研究史料的进一步拓展与运用等等。未来社会史研究前景广阔,但也任重道远。

Scholars in China did not make efforts to build social history automatically until the 1980s. Since then, Chinese research on social history mainly focus on two fields ： introduction and development. In the past two decades, new achievements have been made in social history research, and many breakthroughs in both theoretical research and practice have been achieved, which are mainly demonstrate in three aspects： exploration on theory of social history, excavation and usage of new material, and widening of research horizon. Yet there are also some problems to be considered, which including the theoretical construction, ＂fragmentation＂ research disposition, ;cross-disciplinary boundary, balanced dynastic history, further expansion and use of the historical source, etc. although not an easy work the study for social history has a bright future.