商会史研究与新史学的范式转换

The Study of Chamber of Commerce History and the Paradigm Change of New Historiography

近 2 0年来 ,中国商会史研究越来越为中外学者所瞩目 ,成为中国近代史研究的热点之一 ,并在很大程度上促进了城市史、经济史、社会史、现代化史诸研究领域的进展。本文在商会史研究与新史学建构的相关层面上 ,深入探讨了商会史研究在研究视角、历史解释、理论思维、范式突破诸方面对新史学建构的学术意义。在以上研究的基础上 ,本文认为面向 2 1世纪的新史学发展的基本方向乃是以新社会史为标志的“总体史”。

The study of the Chamber of Commerce history has attracted more and more Chinese and foreign scholars' attention in the recent 20 years, which also becomes one of the focuses in China's modern history and studies as well as promotes the progresses in city history, economic history, social history, modernized history to the great extent. Based on the relevant aspects constructed in history research of the Chamber of Commerce and new historiography, this paper probes into research angle, history explanation, theoretical thinking, and paradigm breakthrough respects in the Chamber of Commerce hisctory study, which build the academic meaning of new historiography. On the basis of above studies, the paper thinks that the basic orientation of the development in new historiography on facing the 21st century, is 'general history' signed the new society history.