关于理论更新对于先秦史研究意义的思考--从解读《牧誓》的启示谈起

目前的先秦史研究中,在具体的实证研究方面已经取得了极为丰硕的成果,但陈旧的理论模式却还在顽固地束缚着我们对于那个时代的宏观把握与总体认识。相对于史学领域内一些理论更新显著的断代研究,先秦史研究这种理论上的滞后显得十分突出。倘若能够从某些新的理论去认识商周时期的历史,我们不仅可以对重大的历史事件提出新的看法,而且对许多具体的历史材料也可以作出新的解释。     

History and Globalization: Reflections on Temporality

Globalization emerged as the buzzword of the 1990s, and, at the dawn of a new millennium, it continues to transfix academics, the media and policy-makers alike. However, one of the key gaps in the research into the process(es) of globalization has concerned its historical identity: the story (and analysis) of its origins, its development and mutation over time, and the continuities and differences between past and present. In this article the author sketches a typology of claims made about the historical identity of globlization in the current literature, and points to some unexplored and fruitful avenues of enquiry. Following this, two recent books are reviewed which attempt, in different but complementary ways, to deepen our understanding of globalization in history. The article concludes with a call for further research on this and related topics.     

界域建构中的困境及其反思——立足于近代华北区域史研究的考察

改革开放40年来的华北区域史研究取得了超越性发展,并以主题性研究和范围性研究为主导取向。这一取向产生了一个共同的问题,即区域史学理或学科建构上的困境,它使得“华北区域史”的学术追求最终湮没在以“华北”命名的各类主题性研究或范围性研究中,一定意义上影响和决定着未来华北区域史研究的进一步发展。一方面日趋泛化的“区域化取向”遮蔽了真正的区域史学术诉求;一方面又造成近代史研究走向“碎化”的境地。突破既往的主题性研究和范围性研究在区域史学理建构上的困境,是华北区域史研究能否成功再出发的关键。     

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

Our respondents, North American and British alike, have provided a series of perceptive comments on our essay “A Peripheral Vision”. They are as wide-ranging as they are well argued and provide ample food for thought on the direction of Communist historiography, not only in Britain but in America and beyond. We want to thank all of them for their informed, often argumentative and sometimes critical collaboration, as well as Dan Leab, the editor of American Communist History, who has made this exchange possible.     

对年鉴创新的几点思考

沈国晴在《江苏地方志》2010年第1期撰文指出,年鉴要发展,就应该打造更广阔的舞台,以更高远的视野谋求新的出路。要在地方文化建设中不断发出自己的声音,扩大年鉴的影响力。比如在两会期间,为人大代表、政协委员发放年鉴,扩大影响;制作宣传地方志书和年鉴的文化产品,发放到基层;     

Geisteswissenschaften in the Third Reich: Some Reflections

Professor Hans Reiss left Germany on 22 August 1939, ‘cuttingit rather fine’, as he puts it, for Ireland, where hestudied and subsequently taught at Trinity College Dublin. Helater held teaching posts at the London School of Economicsand Queen Mary College, London, and was professor at McGillUniversity and the University of Bristol. Professor Reiss haspublished twelve books and editions and over seventy articlesthat range widely across the fields of German literature, culturalhistory and political thought. In this historiographical review,he discusses recent research on the conduct of German literaryscholars during the Third Reich.     

名实·政治·人事——关于民初上海商人团体史研究的几点思考

一、前言在近代中国历史上,上海商人团体有着非同寻常的意义,此点尤以民国初年表现最为显著。辛亥以降的动荡时局中,上海工商界,特别是其中的一些团体或者人物,因其背后潜在的经济力以及广泛的社会网络、与政界关系等而为各方注意。无论是政治人物还是财经专家,甚至外交代表、文化领袖,均曾经将目光投射于上海商人团体,希望这些团体能够提供他们所需要的支持。各界对上海商人团体的评价也曾经因为时势及利益的考量,而出现富有趣味的变化。     

History, the Referent, and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now

This essay surveys the present position of postmodernism with respect to the effect of its ideas upon historiography. For this purpose it looks at a number of writings by historians that have been a response to postmodernism including the recently published collection of articles, The Postmodern History Reader . The essay argues that, in contrast to scholars in the field of literary studies, the American historical profession has been much more resistant to postmodernist doctrines and that the latters' influence upon the thinking and practice of historians is not only fading but increasingly destined to fade. The essay also presents a critical discussion of the current philosophy of postmodernism in its bearing upon historiography, directed chiefly against its claim that the world has undergone an epochal transition from the modern to a postmodern age; its theory of language and linguistic idealism; its opposition to historical realism and denial of the actuality of the past as a possible object of reference; and its theory of historical narrative as unconstrained fictional construction. This discussion includes a consideration of the work of postmodernist thinkers such as J.-F. Lyotard, of the recent books by David Roberts and Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. which espouse a postmodernist theory of history, and of the narrativist theory of Hayden White. The essay also notes some of the reasons for postmodernism's appeal; and while it does not deny that postmodernist philosophy may have served a useful purpose in provoking historians to be more self-critical and aware of their presuppositions and procedures, it maintains that its skeptical and politicized view of historical inquiry is deeply mistaken, out of accord with the way historians themselves think about their work, and incapable of providing an understanding of historiography as a form of thought engaged in the attainment of knowledge and understanding of the human past.     

A People's History of Industrial Philadelphia: Reflections on Community Oral History Projects and the Uses of the Past

Abstract: In this article the author reflects on three community oralhistory projects he conducted in Philadelphia between 1978 and1984. Brief histories of these projects are used as an opportunityfor reflections on urban folk history, and some of the forcesand often unacknowledged "purposes" of the oral historian thatshape interviews and the history that emerges from them.     

古代西北疆域研究若干问题的思考

古代西北疆域是我国疆域的重要组成部分,对古代西北疆域的研究也是边疆史地研究中的重点之一。本文分析了西北疆域研究中应该注意的几个问题,认为以动态的标准确定我国不同时期的历史疆域是研究西北疆域的基本前提;西北疆域地位不断演变,是西北疆域变迁史的基本特点之一,也是西北疆域形成过程的基本形式。同时,文章还就民族、地理环境、国防安全等方面说明了西北疆域形成和发展的内在原因。     

关于上海旅游节发展的若干思考

节庆旅游的发展相当迅速,经济效益、化效益、社会效益都很明显。本综合评述旅游节庆的地位与作用,对上海旅游节的发展进行了SWOT分析,并根据实际情况提出若干对策。     

Cecil Sharp in Somerset: Some Reflections on the Work of David Harker

David Harker's criticism of Cecil Sharp's work has been called the beginning of serious critical work on the early folk music movement, and it has become an orthodoxy which later commentary has accepted without question, taking its accuracy and the validity of its research base on trust. This article shows that the trust has been misplaced. It uses a fresh, more complete and more rigorous analysis of the Sharp MSS to show that Harker's criticism is inaccurate, innumerate, flawed in its methods, and unjustified in its assumptions. It forces a reassessment both of Sharp's work and of Harker's, and renders untenable many of the assumptions upon which modern interpretations of the early folk music movement in Britain are based.