学术规范建设与世界史研究

学术规范建设关系到中国学术的发展和繁荣,对于世界史研究具有同样重要的意义。开展学术规范的建设,既要考虑学术规范自身的系统性,又要照顾不同学科的特点;既要引进欧美学术界的成功经验,又要结合中国学术的传统和实际。世界史作为中国学术的一个分支,其发展需要学术整体进步的带动,同时在学术规范建设中也能发挥某些独特的作用。世界史学科的特点是具有跨文化了解的性质,需要大量使用外文文献,其研究的难度较大,因此,在研究取向、资料运用、引用方式、标注形式、防止抄袭和剽窃各个环节,均有特别的要求。学术规范建设只有顾及世界史的这些特点,才能对其研究水平的不断提高产生有力的推动。

The Construction of Academic Norms and the Study of World History

It is now a consensus that academic norms are of great significance to the development and prosperity of Chinese scholarship, including the discipline of world history. However, in the building up of academic norms, it is important to give considerations to both the systematical nature of academic norms itself and the uniqueness of specific disciplines, and to adjust the experiences absorbed from the learned communities in Europe and America to the academic traditions and scholastic reality in China. As to the study of world history, while the progress of the whole scholarship in China is indispensable to its growth, scholars in the field may play distinctive roles in building up academic norms as well. The field of world history is distinguished by the needs of cross-cultural understanding and the enormous use of materials in sundry foreign languages, therefore there are special requirements in respect to the selection of subjects, the use of materials, the citing of sources, the way of making notes, and the prevention of plagiarism. If only those characteristics of the study of world history are seriously taken into account, the building up of academic norms will be a dynamic factor in promoting the scholarly maturity of the field.