历史的重构与史学的转折——一个跨文化的考察

所谓史学中的转折点,指的是那些在某一历史时期、某一文化内产生了深远影响的历史观念和历史意识的根本性变化,这些转折点事实上也无不在史学史上发挥了跨文化的作用,历史文本也因而得以重构。1970年代末以来,我们已经目睹了诸多书写史学史时取用全球视角和比较方法的可贵尝试,历史学的范畴据之大为拓展,非西方史学也受到了越来越广泛的重视。而当今后现代主义对以科学史学和国家历史为典范的现代职业历史学的巨大挑战,极有可能为又一次重大的史学转折点铺下基石。

Reconstruction of History and Turning Points in Historiography--A Cross-cultural Perspective

A so-called turning point in historiography refers to the fundamental change in the perception of the past in a certain culture that occurs in a historical period,and has a far-reaching influence.In fact,such a turning point also plays a positive and cross-cultural role in the history of history with no exception,and the historical text is therefore reconstructed.From the late 1970s on,we have witnessed lots of valuable attempts to apply global and comparative approach when writing the history of historiography,as a result,the scope of historiography is largely broadened,and the non-Western historiography are receiving more and more attention.Nowadays,the great challenge put forward by the postmodernism to the modern history profession with the paradigm of scientific history and national history is probably laying a foundation for another major turning point on historiography.