Research Of Zhou Liankuan’s Archival Thought

Zhou Liankuan was one of the founding fathers of Chinese archival science. Not only had Zhou Liankuan’s thought of archival science a great influence to Chinese archival science during the formative years, but also at the present times.This article expounds the reform movement about the administrative document and archives which happened in the 1930s, and Zhou Liankuan’s academic qualification and experience of manage archives affair by using historical method, because these were the historical background and the subject’s qualification of the birth of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought.By in-depth analysis of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought, the author presents that Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought has 5 attributes, including administrative attribute, foreign attribute, simple attribute, using attribute and practical attribute. Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought has obvious features, which relates to 7 aspects. Firstly, archives classification of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought; secondly, the opinion of the relationship between documents and archives; archives appraisal of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought; Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought is the first to put forward the idea that the aim of manage archives is to using; fifthly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought pays high attention to the build of archival repository and the technology for protect archives; sixthly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought has strong consciousness of innovation; seventhly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought is unaware of a idea that archives are precious historical data.This article summarizes the influence for the beginning of Chinese archival science of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought. There are including 6 points:the births of Zhou Liankuan’s first writings are the symbol of the sprout of Chinese archival science; Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought built the basic framework of theory research of Chinese archival science; Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought had a direct effect on the administrative attribute; Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought has been influence of foreign idea, especially the library science of America and Europe; Zhou Liankuan discussed the significance and the method of cataloging of archives, and confirmed the position of cataloging archives in the management of archives; Zhou Liankuan classified archives by "permanent preservation", "long-term preservation" and "short-term preservation", which had a good influence of the management of archives.This article summarizes the influence for the modern of Chinese archival science of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought. There are 6 points, also. Firstly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought has lasting effect on the administrative attribute of Chinese archival science. Secondly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought promotes the study of archives using theory. Thirdly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought accelerates the pace of innovation of Chinese archival science. Fourthly, Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought values the significance of practice, which guilds the modern of Chinese archival science. Fifthly, the foreign attribute of Zhou Liankuan’s archival thought leads the modern of Chinese archival science. Sixthly, the classification method of "permanent preservation","long-term preservation" and "short-term preservation" is always applied for the management of archives.