The Historiography Chronicle Of The 1980s

Eighties of the 20th century is a decade of reform. In this age, China historiography has undergone great changes.Changes in Chinese society were reflected in historiography. The reform of historiography reform is a thought liberation movement. May 11,1978, Guangming Daily published a special commentator's article, "Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth," this article undoubtedly provided the strongest impetus to historiography. Historians launched the most violent attack to feudalism and dogmatism,having made important breakthroughs in thinking field. Since then, China historiography start a new chapter in history, entered a new era. An academic ice is melting, an academic restricted area was broken. "Back to Marxism " become the main currents of history thought which through the eighties.in the decade-long time periods, historians had achieved a breakthrough in driving force of historical development, the creators of history, and several other major theoretical issues.Suddenly, a crisis began to appear in historiography from 1983 to 1988. Many historians have started to discuss the Historical Crisism.This becomed the most concentrated and most lively topic. This is a "hard landing"for the historiography that had just got a rebirth. Many historians began to reflect on the crisis. historiography gained a new life through the crisis. The crisis is due to lack of coordination between historiography and the society. In terms of historical theory, the concept of historiography, historical methods, or from the historical value, historical features, historiography of this period are Seriously divorced from the social transition.There are several reasons for this crisis:First of all, the guiding ideology of historical research has been questioned. Academics generally agreed that the times have changed since the older generation of Marxist historians formed the paradigm, this paradigm has not fully adapted to the new needs of the times. It had become some outdated.Therefore, we must re-study Marxism. Second, the crisis came from the poverty of methodology. Third, the crisis is reflected in the research field extremely narrow and focused. Historiography must be reformed. It was because the "Historical Crisis" that forced the that historiography to adjust its internal structure,begin the difficult road of reform. First, historiography gained a significant progress in theory. Many historians have published theoretical writings. such as " The Introduction of History Science",which was edited by Ge Maochun, and "Historical Introduction", which was edited by Bai shouyi, and "Historical Introduction", which edited by WuZe, and so on.80's historiography had made a breakthrough in epistemology, and no longer replaced by the Marxist theory of knowledge. Meanwhile, historians began to establish their own methodology system. The exploration of new methodological approach had become common In the history of Schools. One of the most striking is the combination of natural and historical science.During this period, a large number of foreign historiography books began to be introduced to China. Such as ecological history, psychological history, historical geography, measurement history are introduced into the domestic history circle. In addition to theory-building, the study of social history began to rise. The rise of social history in China had great tribute to conversion of the history system. Social History built a new paradigm. First, It adopt an interdisciplinary research methods; It absorb sociology, economics, political science, geography, psychology, medicine, demography, culture, statistics, folk, ethnology and other disciplines' theoretical methods to achieve its goal of building the overall history. Second, It greatly broadened the channel docking with the international history. Third, a substantial change happened in research area. The study of history had been shift from the elite of the history to ordinary people, also from the politics history to everyday social life, and from the general thing to major social problems.All in all, Chinese historiography has three contributions in 1980s:The first contribution is to help historiography freed from the shackles of ideology; The second contribution is to help historiography to promote diversification;The third contribution is that it provided a number of theoretical breakthrough.