史语所学人考证学新境界与中国气派

The New Realm and Chinese Style of The Institute of History and Philology Scholars’ Textual Research

历史语言研究所以建立“科学的东方学之正统在中国”为职志,聚集了大批新史家,形成了一个现代意义上的“学术共同体”。相较旧史家以书为本位的研究取向,史语所学人更重视对影响历史进程的重要问题进行阐发。他们不仅将国内既有的史料与成果作为研究的基点,而且以西方汉学为参照系,力求在学术研究的共同领域与国外学者展开交流与对话。再者,史语所学人的考证学,经历了从单纯求真到将求真与致用二者并重的路径转变,实现了治史境界的升华。因而,他们的考证学成果,在推动民国学术发展的同时,也彰显了中国史家历史研究的风格与气派。

For establishing the scientific orientalism in China, the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) had gathered many neo-historians, forming an academic community in the modern sense. Compared with the research orientation of the ancient historians, the scholars of the IHP paid more attention to the analysis of important issues affecting the historical process. Furthermore, they not only used the existing historical materials and achievements in China as the research base, but also took Western Sinology as the reference system, and strived to communicate and dialogue with foreign scholars in the common field of academic research. Furthermore, the textual research of the scholars of the IHP experienced a path transformation from merely seeking the truth to lay equal stress on truth-seeking and application, leading to the sublimation of the realm of historical research. Therefore, their research results not merely promoted the academic development of the Republic of China, but also highlighted the style of Chinese historical research.