摘要
中国区域社会史在20世纪80年代甚至更早就已经萌芽生长,其中最重要的源头是社会经济史领域的区域性研究。区域性研究汇入蓬勃发展的社会史潮流之中,两者相互激荡、相互启发,在90年代中期催生了有别于地方史的区域社会史概念,不仅扩大了研究范围,而且获得了新的研究方法和问题意识。从事区域社会史研究的学者在区域社会史与地方史、整体史的关系上进行了诸多有价值的理论探索,或主以区域重构整体史,或主以整体区隔地方史。这两种取向都不能忘怀于整体史。以区域重构整体史,有助于解决宏大叙事之不足。以整体区隔地方史有利于解决研究的碎化、提升研究的对话空间。探寻中国区域社会史研究的学术定位体现了学界重新书写整体史的强烈愿望。
While emerging as a new field only in the 1990 s,regional social history had actually originated a decade or so earlier,thanks to the advances in regional studies of socio-economic history. Over the period,social history and economic history benefited one another,resulting in a new trend in regional social history. Different from regional studies,this new field expanded research scope and developed new ideas and questions in methodology. In particular,scholars in regional social history have explored issues thatexamine the complex relationship between local history and total history,or to study the local with a comprehensive,or total history,perspective and vice versa. That is,while some prefer to use regional history to reconstruct total history,others hope to depict total history by highlighting the difference between total history and local history. Both approaches,the author believes,reflect an interest in total history.Integrating the two,or merging the local with the total in forming one's research,would overcome potential downsides caused by fragmentation on the one side and overemphasis on finding a grand narrative on the other. In sum,regional social history study is moving in a new direction,which will help deepen and enrich our understanding and practice of total history.
出处
《史学理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2016年第4期56-66,共11页
Historiography Bimonthly
