Historical Materialism and the Rise of Chinese Social History Writing
The research and writing on the social history of modern China have emerged under the influence of western empirical sociology and Marxist historical materialism.The development of this field has evolved from an initial exploration of overall social history into two main branches:the developmental history of social forms(general history)and the history of social life(specialized history).This process has not only significantly broadened historical perspectives and the connotations of historical research,but also directly facilitated the transformation of traditional historiography into modern historical science.Particularly under the guidance of historical materialism,focusing on the macroscopic laws of historical development and the common welfare in social history writing has become a prevalent progressive tendency.The trend towards the integration of history and sociology in this field also displays the interdisciplinary research characteristics of the early stages of mod-ern historiography.Starting from this point,historical studies began to break through the old academic con-fines,rapidly turning towards modern social science by further incorporating and utilizing methods from modern anthropology,folklore,archaeology,economics,statistics,and so on.
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