《新史学》之后——1929年的中国历史学界

The Years after the Issuance of the Call for “New Historiography”——The Chinese Historiographical Circles in 1929

梁启超在 1 90 2年就写出了《新史学》 ,但是中国历史学的根本变化却出现在二十多年之后。本文以 1 92 9年为例 ,叙述那个时代中国历史学界的新变。一方面西方历史学理论和方法大量引入中国 ,历史学家关注的领域已经从汉族中国扩展到四裔甚至世界 ,“新史学”正在日渐试图成为“科学”并与西方“接轨” ;但是另一方面 ,在历史学界种种动向与争论的背后也隐藏了另一个问题 ,即什么才是“中国”的“新史学” ,这一新的问题引起历史学界关于世界主义与民族主义、科学取向与民族认同之间的紧张与焦虑 ,并一直延续至今。

It was more than twenty years after Liang Qichao issued the call for “new historiography” in 1902 that fundamental changes began to take place in historiography in China. This paper focuses on 1929 when many theories and methods of historiography were introduced from the West into China, the interest of historians expanded from Han-ruled China to the borderlands and even the world and “new historiography” was becoming a “scientific discipline” and were being geared to the West. On the other hand, behind these developments and arguments lay another problem: What did “new historiography” mean in China?