海峡两岸的口述史研究与交流

1948年美国哥伦比亚大学口述历史研究室的建立,标志着现代口述史学的诞生。经过50多年的发展,口述史学已经成为历史学举足轻重的分支学科,其研究方法被广泛运用,尤其在当代中国风云人物与重大事件的研究中,显示出独特的韵味与魅力,获得巨大的成功。海峡两岸的口述史研究起步较早,互访交流始于改革开放后的80年代,近年来有着更为密切的接触,两岸口述史刊物与口述史成果的交流也获得长足发展,标志着一个新的口述史研究热潮的到来。

Studies and Exchanges on Oral History in Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland

Oral history started in Columbia University of U. S. A. in 1948. In the past fifty years, it has been successful and has become an important branch of history science, especially in the research of the contemporary Chinese history. In 1980s, researchers of the Chinese Taiwan and the Chinese mainland visited each other or had academic exchanges on oral history. Now there is a high tide between the Chinese Taiwan and the Chinese mainland in the study of oral history.