Study On The Preparation Of Oral History

Oral history has a long historical tradition. As early as in before the invention of writing, the history of the world is passed down by means of oral form, such like poetry and myth. The early historians use both oral history data and literature materials when they writting, this is also a response and extension to ancient tradition of the history. In recent years, as the result of the change of the contemporary historical research field of vision, effected by the changing of "yuan history" position, new ideas of history and methods has paid close attention by the academic circles, and the oral history obtained the rapid development.In recent years, China’s oral history construction has made a series of results, published many academic articles. The mainland oral history presents a piece of booming prosperous scene. But in our country with the rapid development of oral history, some problems are also revealed:the oral history is weakness in theoretical research, subject position is not clear, the lack of unified standard research and vulnerable to question, often misunderstood and so on.In the face of these problems, strengthening oral history discipline foundation construction, theory construction and establish unified research of our country has become the most urgent things to promote the further development of standard of oral history.