中国经济史研究的挑战与机遇刍议

The Challenges and Opportunities on Chinese Economic History Review

从20世纪90年代后半期开始,中国经济史研究出现了某种"衰落"的征象,但大量新资料的挖掘整理以及相应的技术手段的进步、新研究方法的出现、还有随时代剧变而来的理论挑战,也给经济史研究带来了新的机遇。通过回顾社会史大论战、"五朵金花"对经济史学科的影响、吴承明先生和汪敬虞先生的争论,以及经济学方法在经济史研究中的运用,本文认为现实问题的挑战是经济史研究重要的问题意识来源之一,经济史研究者应该更好地学习和掌握理论工具,经济史研究虽然在很长一段时间还主要是历史学的一部分,但对于经济学方法在经济史研究中的使用,我们应更为积极和开放。只有很好地理解对方的学术传统和背景,经济学和历史学才能够更好地为经济史研究服务。

Since the late of 1990s, there was decline on Chinese economic history review in some ways. However, there are some opportunities on Chinese economic history review with the great change, such as excavating and collating new history materials, progressing of technology measures, the emergence of new research methods, theory challenge with a changing era. Through review the social history controversy, the effects of Five Golden Flowers to economic history discipline, the controversy between Wu Chengrning and Wang Jingyu and the application of economic methods in the study of economic history, this paper point out that the challenges of realistic problems is one of the sources of consciousness question. The researchers of economic history should learn and master the theoretical tools. Although economic history will be a part of history in a long term, the researchers of economic history should take the attitudes of active and open for using economic methods in economic history research. For economics and history, they should effort understand each other for their academic tradition and background.