历史、现状与未来——中国政治思想史学科发展的百年回顾

History, Current Situation and Future:Review of the Hundred Years Disciplinary Development of the History of Political Thought of Ancient China

中国政治思想史学科于20世纪20年代初创建以来,一直存在身份识别的困难。萧公权“采政治学之观点”的研究进路,彰显了其作为政治学分支学科的属性。20世纪80年代的学科重建,逐渐形成了研究对象的选择应充分考虑中国政治思想史特殊性的共识,这一共识的形成和政治文化研究的引入拓展了中国政治思想史的选题视野和研究范围,有力地推动了编撰体例、书写风格和研究方法的创新,带来了中国政治思想史研究的空前繁荣,涌现出了学界公认的“刘泽华学派”和9卷本《中国政治思想通史》这样的学科百年发展史上的典范之作。但中国政治思想史知识的中国特色的彰显,并未能彻底消解其与现代政治学知识体系间固有之张力。如何将中国政治思想有机融汇于现代政治学知识体系,仍需做出更多的探索和尝试。

The discipline of the history of political thought of ancient China has always been trapped in the difficulty of disciplinary identity during its foundation in early 1920s.Hsiao Kung chuan s approach of adopting viewpoints of political science showed its nature as a branch discipline of political science.From the disciplinary reestablishment in 1980s a consensus that choosing study ob jects should give consideration to the particularity of the political thought of ancient China took shape gradually.The formation of this consensus and the introduction of political culture study promoted inno vations of compiling regulations,writing styles and studying methods,which lead to the prosperity of the study of the history of political thought of ancient China that had never seen before,and to the universal ly accepted Liu Zehua School and nine volumes General History of Political Thought of China,i.e.the paragon of this discipline in this hundred years.But the exhibition of characteristics of Chinese political knowledge cannot dispel the innate tension between this discipline and the knowledge system of modern political science.How to integrate the former to the latter needs our farther exploration and attempt.