中国科学技术史研究70年

Seventy Years of Studies on History of Science and Technology in China

新中国成立之初,科技史作为爱国主义教育的重要议题得到国家的重视。1957年,中国科学院中国自然科学史研究室的成立标志着科技史学科在中国的建制化及研究队伍的职业化。在整理历史资料的基础上,科技史学者主要开展学科史和专题史的研究。1978年以来,科技史学科进入快速发展阶段。中国科学技术史学会和高校研究单元陆续成立,多种学术期刊问世,国内外学术交流活跃,国际化进程加快。同时,研究工作从古代延伸到近现代,从中国扩展到世界,不断拓展新的研究领域,取得了一系列重要成果。近年来,高校的科技史学科在不断调整,带来机遇和挑战。

As an important issue in the patriotic education,the history of science and technology is highly valued by the government of the People’s Republic of China.The Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)founded the Research Department on the History of Natural Sciences in 1957,which marked the institutionalization of the discipline of history of S&T and the professionalization of the historians of S&T.The scholars initiated the studies on the history of the disciplines and related issues on the basis of the compilation of historical materials.Since 1978,the discipline of history of S&T has been developing fast.The Chinese Society of the History of Science and Technology and the research units in the universities have been established while several academic journals have been launched,which accelerated the academic communication and the internationalization.Meanwhile,the historians of S&T expanded the research fields from traditional China to modern China and from China to the world.In recent years,the discipline of history of S&T in the universities has been evaluated and adjusted,which brings opportunities and challenges as well.