"De-Westernization":Another Interpretation of the Early Turn of New China Historiography
"De-Westernization"is one of the main paths and basic principles of the early turn of New China's historiography,which has the original significance for the subsequent changes in historiography.This shift was led by the Communist Party of China,which not only completed the power transformation of the subject force of historiography by rebuilding the mechanism of historiography,but also adopted a two-pronged approach of"great criticism"and"great discussion"to eliminate the conscious-ness of"academic independence"based on liberalism.In the historical discourse system at that time,there was semantic consis-tency between"De-Westernization"and"anti-imperialism""criticizing bourgeois historiography".Running through it is the more general discourse of class struggle.The"De-Westernization"of historiography has been endowed with world significance,which is manifested in the struggle for the right of discourse between the historiography of the Soviet Union and the historiography of Eu-rope and the United States.This time historiography turned to serve the socialist ideal,and its nature went beyond the academic scope,resulting in simplification and oversimplification.As a political strategy,its destructive effect is extremely obvious,but the construction after the destruction is also highly effective,successfully reversing the study style of emphasizing textual research over theory,emphasizing micro over macro,emphasizing scholarship over practical application,emphasizing facts over laws,and placing theoretical principles in Chinese history itself,thus advancing Chinese historiography to a new stage.
Historiography of New ChinaDe-WesternizationMarxist HistoriographyIndigenization
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