20世纪三四十年代的中国边疆研究及其发展趋向

20世纪三四十年代,大量专业的边疆研究刊物、社团创立,部分大学设置了边政学系等边疆教育研究机构,边疆研究的内容在传承中得到了拓伸,同时也开始了构建近代意义的边疆研究方法与理论的尝试。这一时期的边疆研究重视中华民族观念的讨论,是"致用"与"致知"双重社会需求的产物,具有明显的政府组织与推动的时代特征,表现出突破传统史学窠臼向独立学科发展的基本趋势,在研究理念上呈现出跨学科综合研究的多维视角。

Chinese Borderland Study and its Development Trend in 1930s and 1940s

In 1930s and 1940s, a great quantity of professional publications and societies on frontier research appeared, some universities set the research institutions on frontier education such as the frontier policy department(边政学系), and the content of the frontier research was enriched and the methods and theory were opened up . The frontier research in this period valued the discussion on the concepts of Chinese nation, reflected the social needs on "practice" and "knowledge", organized and propelled by the government obviously, gave an index to the basic development trend from traditional historiography to independent discipline. The multidimensional perspectives of interdisciplinary research were thus adopted.