创知与致用——民国时期边政学派学术活动述评

Creation and Application of Knowledge:A Review of Academic Activities of the School of Frontier Studies in the Republic of China

边政学是民国时期迅速发展起来的一门学科,其间有大量知名学者参与边政学的学术研究,为推动其发展作出了卓越贡献,遂使边政学研究成为著名的边政学派。与当时的国家命运相伴相依,边政学之学术研究不仅有创知的紧迫感,还有致用的目的性,因此与我国传统学术研究的“纯洁性”规范存在一些差异。考察边政学派之创知与致用成果,能深刻理解彼时学人将个人命运与国家命运相融合的浪漫情怀,也能探察其致力于“西学”中国化的良苦用心。边政派学人走出“书阁”、注重田野调查的学术实践,体现出积极的入世态度和实干精神,对当今的人文社科研究不乏启示意义。

Frontier studies is a discipline that developed rapidly in the era of the Republic of China.During this era,a large number of Chinese eminent scholars participated in the academic researches of Frontier studies and made outstanding contributions to its development,thus making the Frontier studies become a famous school.Along with the fate of the country at that time,the researches of Frontier studies not only had a sense of urgency to create knowledge,but also had the purpose of application.Therefore,it produced some gaps with traditional Chinese academic researches because of the“purity”standard.To study the achievements in knowledge creation and application of the school of frontier studies can help us to understand the romantic feelings of the Chinese scholars who combined their personal destiny with the national destiny,and to explore their intentions of devoting themselves to sinicize the“western learning”.The academic practice of the scholars of the frontier school,who went out of the“armchair”and focused on the fieldwork studies with the positive attitude or spirit which was secular and practical,has also enlightened the research of Humanities and social sciences in contemporary era.