A Study of Liang Qichao's and He Bingsong's New Concepts and Methodologies of Historiography in the Perspective of Historical Research Methods
In the early 20th century and with the iterative advancement of the"new historiography",the traditional Chinese historiogra-phy continued to be integrated with the theories and methods of foreign historiography,and the new research approaches emerged through the critical assimilation of the old.The most typical works of the"research methods"of the new historiography as a academic discipline in the 1920s were Liang Qichao's Research Methods on Chinese History and Supplement to Research Methods on Chinese History and He Bingsong's modified translation of Historical Research Methods.By systematically comparing the historical ontology,historical epistemology,historical methodology,and historical value theory contained in these three works,we can see not only the critical devel-opment of such historical concepts as the historiography of civilization,positivist historiography,historicism,and James Harvey Robinson's"new historiography"by these new Chinese historiographers in the 1920s,but also the trend of the traditional historiography returning to integration.We can conclude that these historians tried to seek a balance between the new and the old,China and the West,truth and application,theory and method,and to establish a systematic and complete theory of historiography,which can help us have a better understanding of the transitional 1920s with a consideration of the overall development process of historiography in the ear-ly modern times.
Liang QichaoHe Bingsongresearch methods of historiographynew historiography
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