| Recently, there is a viewpoint in academic community that the various differences among historical themes' composition and criticism were resulted from the historical viewpoint. Historical viewpoint, an understanding on history, is a perspective which obviously or intangibly existed in humans' mind. Although this opinion became a common in academic community, there is no systematic argumentation in precedent studies. In this article, the historical viewpoint researches on contemporary Chinese historical themes' composition and criticism was aiming at proving this significant academic subject.With profound relationship among the ancient, modern and contemporary historical viewpoint, some conceptions of ancient official historical viewpoint, e.g. historical cognition, value judgment and aesthetic standards were still in existence. While in modern literature the historical viewpoint which were represented by Liang Qichao, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xu, and Li Dazhao have direct influences. The revolution ideology historical viewpoint based on classes-struggling-history-viewpoint, the board culture historical viewpoint based on national standpoint and the individual historical viewpoint led by new historical philosophy, which were on the basis of ancient and modern historical viewpoint, are forming with the outside influences.From historical cognitive view, history is a mirror of political revolution accompanied with such opinions: integrated systematic production, individual philosophy and etc. These were vividly reflected in contemporary historical themes' composition and criticism. Besides its theoretical and age rationality, there are many deviations in their propriety which were tightly related to not only main body's historical viewpoint, but also the individual partiality and realistic composition method.While in historical value tropism and position, there are some distinctive configurations such as "coordinate with or subject to politics", "traditional historical culture value excavation" and "consumption history" in contemporary historical themes' composition. Their value choices are highly distinctive, even keen-edged opposition. The diverse historical value tropism became to be a drastic discussion between challenge and maintenance on schoolbook historical viewpoint in century point. |