Chai Degeng's Marxist Turn and His Historical Contribution
Chai Degeng is a modern historian who is well known for textual research.After the liberation of Beiping,Chai Degeng actively studied Marxism,participated in political studies and social practice activities,and did reflection in some ways such as self-criticism.As a consequence,he gradually established a relatively systematic Marxist theoretical system and applied it to historical research and history teaching,making many important achievements.As for historical research,Chai Degeng was against idealism and advocated historical materialism.The main embody of his idea was the mastery of the laws of human historical development and the application of class theory.As for history teaching,he explored the implementation of Marxism into history teaching and advocated the use of the materialist view of history to properly analyze historical knowledge in the classroom.His proposals of requiring teachers to be highly professional and politically literate and to beware of incomplete criti-cism of materialist views are still worth learning.
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