汤因比的大历史写作

历史活着?是的,历史活着,那么历史学家的良知与睿智也将是常青的,它将穿越时空,连接东西,启示世人,教育后代。汤因比就是这样。汤因比作为20世纪的西方史学大家,在我国颇具知名度,其思想不仅在学界争鸣不已,而且其著作在坊间广为流传,比如他的"挑战与应战"之术语,也成了人们的常用话语。本辑文章就其史学思想进行研讨,其当代意义更是不言而喻的,这正是我们要以"汤因比史学新论"为题组织笔谈之缘由,《云南大学学报(社会科学版)》编辑部同仁,慧眼识题,迅速而成功地促成了这一辑选题的问世。学术创新,或据新材料之发现,或依视角之转换,所谓"新论"云云,也就是这个意思。本组笔谈,辑文五篇,需要指出的是,除我之外,皆出自青年之俊域,这些文章从某个方面,反映了当代中国学界对汤因比研究的水平,犹如带露的朝花,去迎接春天。我期盼着他们的成长,在秋日里丰收。至所望焉!

History is always alive and so remain the conscience and wisdom of historians,transcending time and space and enlightening the people of the world.Arnold Joseph Toynbee is such a great historian in the 20th century in the West.His academic reputation is popular in China and his achievements are enlightening while some of his academic terms like 'challenge and response'are widely used.Sponsored by the Editorial Department of Journal of Yunnan University,I helped organize this group discussion for a new interpretation of Arnold Joseph Toynbee' s historical views,which should have much academic significance.This new interpretation of Arnold Joseph Toynbee' s historical views is based on new perspectives or new materials.Except me,the other four participants are promising young Chinese scholars specializing in historiography,or the history of the West,whose papers reflect from a certain perspective the present research on Arnold Joseph Toynbee by Chinese scholars and will usher in new research methods and findings in the future.