Wang Jingyu’s Research On Chinese Economic History In The 20th Century

The research results of Chinese economic history in the 20th century are eye-catching.Among many economic history scholars,Mr.Wang Jingyu’s name is deeply engraved on the monument of economic history research in the past 100 years.Wang Jingyu is a famous modern economist in China.He has a solid foundation in economics and his research is very professional.He used a Marxist standpoint to explore ideas and methods for studying economic history.The purpose of this article is to make a comprehensive review of Wang Jingyu’s economic history research and show the scholarly style and historical achievements of the Economists in the 20th century.Understanding the academic enlightenment of scholars is of great significance to exploring their academic careers,and personal history and the historical environment play a mutually shaping role.Wang Jingyu’s embarking on the road of economic history research is closely related to his early education experience and the relationship between teacher and student.In particular,Wu Baosan and Yan Zhongping’s personal guidance to Wang Jingyu profoundly influenced Wang Jingyu’s choice of academic path.The academic exchanges during Wang Jingyu’s academic development period and Wang Jingyu’s own academic character also had a profound impact on later studies.At the same time,the major institutions that he worked in successively,such as the Department of Economics of Wuhan University,the Institute of Economics,etc,not only provided Wang Jingyu with a model of economic theory,but also created an environment for him to practice.Wang Jingyu’s academic environment is different at different stages.His academic research has distinct phases.He strives to achieve the organic unity of academic value and social value in the process of shifting the focus of research.Wang Jingyu mainly focused on pure economic research in the early stage,and economic research has not yet been based on the Chinese social environment.After a period of time,China’s economic,ideological,cultural and other major fields carried out simultaneous adjustments and rectifications.Intellectuals such as Wang Jingyu received ideological transformation and political education,and began to try to combine Marxist research methods with China’s national conditions to carry out academic research.In the 1980s,the "Cultural Revolution" was purged of drugs,and the "scientization of economic history research" was put on the agenda again.Driven by the social environment,Wang Jingyu accelerated the pace of academic research and used new methods and new theories in economic history research to study the economic history of China’s economic history.Contributed a strong force.After combing Wang Jingyu’s academic development context,we can further analyze the characteristics of his economic history research.First of all,in terms of methodology,Wang Jingyu has always insisted on using detailed historical materials as the foundation of his scholarship,focusing on the collection and textual research of historical materials,and attaching importance to the application of overall historical concepts in the research process,insisting on the combination of economics and economic history,overall investigation and individual discrimination.Combine,develop new methods and new viewpoints in areas that the predecessors did not pay attention to.He opened up a new perspective on China’s modern industry’s attention,put forward new perspectives on the emergence of Chinese capitalism,and set new standards for the writing of modern Chinese economic history.Wang Jingyu has made many contributions to the study of modern Chinese economic history.Wang Jingyu’s primary contribution in the process of historical research is to attach importance to the construction of economic historical data.He has done a lot of work in the compilation of economic historical data,and has done effective data regulation in the construction of modern industrial historical data and the construction of statistical historical data in economic history.Secondly,Wang Jingyu proposed to take "the development and non-development of capitalism" as the central clue of China’s modern economic history,which triggered thinking about the basic clues of the development of modern Chinese history in the field of economic history.Finally,Wang Jingyu applied the "central clue theory" of modern Chinese economic history to historical research,and wrote a large number of economic history research results under the guidance of the principle of combining theory with practice,making outstanding contributions to the research of modern Chinese economic history.From a horizontal perspective,Wang Jingyu always adheres to the innovative method of historical research,develops new methods and new viewpoints in areas that have not been paid attention to by the predecessors,attaches importance to the application of overall historical concepts,and focuses on the collection and textual research of historical materials.The enthusiastic discussion on the clues of the center of modern Chinese history reflects the commonality of the times.Taking Wang Jingyu as a case study can not only glimpse the rationale and context of the research on Chinese economic history in the 20th century,but also relate personal academic growth to the development process of Chinese economic history research,and explore the perspective of personal academic research from the overall process of economic history research The choice and direction of roads and methods.Facing the needs of China’s economic construction,economic historians need to cross economic sciences and historical sciences,have both history and economics foundation,and jointly promote the vigorous development of Chinese economic history research.