Wu Historiographical

Wu Han (1909～1969), a famous expert in the history of Ming Dynasty, has the founding cornerstone role for the study of the history of the Ming Dynasty. He has lots of papers in his life, engages in academic single-minded in early days, and the popularization of historical knowledge in later period.This paper takes Wu Han’s academic achievement and contribution for the study, including the Historical source, Historical Achievement, Historical Thought and so on. It has four parts.The first chapter introduces the life of Wu Han’s academic and academic sources, including two sections. Section Ⅰ briefly describes the life of Wu Han. Wu Han had a rough life ups and downs, focused on academic in early days, and later into politics, hovering between the academic and political uncertainty, and ultimately become a victim of political struggle. Section Ⅱ detailed history of the Idea through his books. Wu Han, is mainly effected by the new history of the representatives of the HuShi, Gujiegang historical thinking, later period accept historical materialism, his works has more obvious traces of historical materialism.The second chapter describes the historical achievements. First, the history of Ming Dynasty part includes the General history of and other achievements, with emphasis on the research results of the Ming Dynasty political, economic, military, and diplomatic aspects; Second, his study for the Zhu Yuan Zhang mainly through comparison of four versions of Zhu Yuan Zhang’ Biography to analyze the historical evolution of historical thought; Third, his study for the History of statehood mainly introduced its pioneering research in the history of the power; Finally,discusses his Great achievements in the history population.The third chapter mainly describes Wu Han’s historical thought, Including the principles and methods of the history Compilation, historical data processing,and evaluation on historical figures.In the conclusion Part, it summarizes his academic achievements and his position in the academic, that purport to write this article.