The Southward Movement and Cohesion of"Modern Chinese History"——-The Rise of Modem Chinese Histo-ry Teaching and Learning at Wuhan University in the 1930s
Within eight years in the 1930s,the Department of History of Wuhan University took over the new research style of"Modern Chinese History"of Tsinghua University,and brought together scholars of modern history from Tsinghua University,Southeast University,Jinling University,and Kwang Hwa University who were active in the research of modern history,and formed a relatively stable research direction.The Mean-ing and Methods of Studying Modem Chinese History written by Luo Jialun was published,which opened up the research path of"modernization"mode and practiced the theory and methods of combining Ranke's positivist historiography and Robinson's new historiography.It became the center of commentaries on modern historiography and the distribution center of information.The teaching of modern history in the Department of History of Wuhan University reached a large scale,and the number of theses written on the topic of modem history was considerable;a number of lecture notes related to modern Chinese history were printed,and a national textbook,Chen Gonglu's Modern Chinese History,was published.Against the background of a highly mobile faculty in the Republic of China,the Department of History at Wuhan University held fast to its position as one of the major research centers in the field of"modern Chinese history".
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