新疆历史纵论

章对新疆历史研究做了宏观探讨，认为研究新疆历史首先要站在历史的脊梁上观察历史，既要了解我们先辈对新疆的开拓和开发，也要了解前人对新疆的探索和研究；众多民族共同创造了新疆的历史和新疆是统一多民族国家不可分割的一部分，是我们认识新疆历史的出发点和归宿点；历代王朝对新疆的治理，新疆是各民族共同生活的大家园而不是哪一个民族的家园，多种宗教在碰撞中并存，多元化的共存、交融与互补，屯垦戍边的历史与现实证明了其必要性和合理性，构成了新疆历史发展的五个基本问题；以往了解历史是为了研究历史，现在研究历史是为了更好地了解现状和解决现实中的问题，这是我们研究新疆历史应该注意到的。

An Extensive Discussion on the History of China's Xinjiang

The paper makes a macro study on Xinjiang's history, thinking that we, who are researching Xinjiang's history, are required to stand in the back of history,and know not only our ancestors' exploiture and opening-up of Xinjiang, but also their explorations and studies over Xinjiang. Our starting point and end-result to know Xinjiang's history are that it is numerous nationalities who created Xinjiang's history and Xinjiang is an indivisible part of China. What consist of the five basic questions in the development of Xinjiang follows bellow: the administration of Xinjiang in past dynasties, Xinjiang being a homestead of numerous nationalities instead of certain one, various religions coexisting here with clashes, multiculture's coexistence and blending as well as being complementary, the history and reality of stationing troops to open up wastland and garrisoning the frontiers having been necessary and reasonable. What we should pay attention to is that we, in the past, made ourselves acquainted with Xinjiang's history just in order to research it better, but now, we have to make further study over it in order to understand the present situation of Xinjiang better as well as to resolve the problems better.