Exploration Of Liang Qichao's History Epistemology

Liang Qichao(1873-1929)is a. founder of new history, in modern China. His research on culture learning takes history as the core. His learning changes several times, but never departs form history. Liang Qichao's history epistemology is the important component of his theoretical system of history all the time. On the basis of the seniors' research, the article explores the main content and the characteristic of history epistemology according to his expounding on history epistemology.The article is divided into four parts:Part one analyzes the time and learning background of the forming of capitalist in china new history, which starts for the history background of modern society, and combines the spreading of modern western history with. Liang Qichao's criticism of feudal history.Part two discusses Liang Qichao's main thought of historical theory, including his evolutionary historical theory, the aim and efficacy of history learning and the discursion on causality of history.Part three discusses the main content of Liang Qichao's history epistemology, which includes that Liang Qichao puts forward the object, the object and their relations, and the contradictory history epistemology which pays attention pursue the objectivity of history, as well as emphasizes on historians' subjective consciousness.Part four analyzes the characteristic of Liang Qichao's history epistemology which not only includes Chinese traditional history epistemology, but also absorbs advanced history epistemology the modern west. Liang Qichao's history epistemology is a kind of comparison and synthesis of the Chinese and Western history epistemology, and also a kind of supplement of each other.The concluding part is the summary and comment on Liang Qichao's history epistemology. Liang Qichao's pursuing to historical objectivity and valuing to the subjection consciousness is unprecedented. His depth of history epistemology makes the history both in china and v/est be supplied by each other. Because of Liang Qichao's time characteristic and his own limitation, his epistemology has a mark of idealism and be in self-contradictory inevitably.