Dialectical Theory Of Archival Appraisal Thinking Development

The practice of archives appraisal contains the thoughts of archives appraisal. Inthe long developing process, the issues, about archives appraisal definition,principle,standard,institution and organization, appear in the archives work. They are the markof appraisal practice development, the basic aspect of new appraisal theory, and theform foundation of appraisal thoughts. In practice, these issues impact the quantityand quality of archives. They also have effect on archives value achievement, and thebenefits of archives work. In theory research, these issues are the core questions ofarchives theory all along.The paper uses historical materialism as guiding ideology. It starts from thedialectical relationship between appraisal theory and practice. In order to study, it putsthe research about appraisal thoughts into the developing process of archives work. Ituses the developing history of appraisal practice to explain the development ofappraisal thoughts. Observing the tremendous changes of archives work bases onappraisal thoughts' changes as well. So as to concentrate on the problems whichhave important significance on appraisal theory and practice.The research of this paper bases on different periods of China. It uses theappraisal thought which is shown in the feudal society's archives work forbackground. Then researching the appraisal thoughts of three periods respectively, thethree periods are the Republic of China(about 1912-1949),the People's Republic ofChina founded to the end of 1970s(about 1949-1979),after 1980s(about 1980-).In thediscussion of these periods, we do concrete conclusion from theory field and practicefield separately. In theory field, we mainly sum up the theoretical principle and basicthoughts about archives appraisal. The data is from the archives writings of differentperiods. And in practice field, we pay attention on specific laws and regulations,original clauses,the list of archives appraisal and appraisal methods, etc. They alsoappear in different periods. Basing on the work above all, first we should form objective recognition about the dialectical relationship between appraisal theory andpractice of each period, then analysis and evaluate the appraisal thoughts contain inthem, in hope that they can provide useful references for the development of archivesappraisal theory and the strategy of archives appraisal practice.