博学笃志 切问近思——金冲及治学访谈录

A Tenacious Pursuit of Knowledge and an Inquisitive Mind for Ideas:A Conversation with Jin Chongji

一、早年经历与初识马克思主义金之夏:您1947年考入复旦大学史地系,当年您为什么会选择学习历史?金冲及:我在复旦附中读书期间就对历史很有兴趣,那时候金兆梓和耿淡如两位先生编写的历史教科书给我留下了很深的印象。读高中后,我开始自己逛书店。

Jin Chongji,born in Shanghai in 1930,is among the first generation of historians educated in the People's Republic of China.Jin has long been engaged in the research of the history of modern China,Party history and PRC history.His representative works include History of the 1911 Revolution(co-authored with Hu Shengwu),An Outline of Chinese History in the Twentieth Century,The Turning Year:China's 1947,Life and Death:The Chinese Communist Party's Choice of the Road,The Decisive Battle:How Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek Responded to the Three Great Battles,etc.He is also chief editor of the biographies of many Party leaders such as Mao Zedong,Zhou Enlai,Liu Shaoqi,Zhu De and Chen Yun.He has won the China Book Award,the China Publishing Government Award,and the Guo Moruo History Award for many times.