Challenges And Reflection To Traditional Historiography By Post-modern Historiography

As a result of the modern social and cultural crisis caused by World War II, Historical progress Theory is being challenged deeply and seriously, as well as the negative effects of science is vacillating the conception of history taking rationality as the foundation. Postmodern Historiography has been formed under such background. It proposes the suspicion to the historical reality concept , the historical authenticity and the pursuit of objective truth. Postmodern ideological trend has made a great impact on the modern history. It attaches an great importance to the interpretation on fabric of language, the return to narrative and historical text and Micro-history. Thought we criticized the challenges on the content and methods of Modern History's given by Post-modernism, Modern History has been got into difficulties by its useless ideas. Challenges drive historical scholars to reflect constant methods of historical research, makeing their thoughts clear in order to search more effective history research method to some extent.