x年来的中国近代思想文化史研究.doc

30年来的中国近代思想文化史研究 左玉河 【英文标题】Researches on the History of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture in the Past 30 Years ? 　(Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100006, China)【作者简介】左玉河(1964-)，男，河南新乡人，中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员、博士生导师，历史学博士。中国社会科学院近代史所，北京　100006【内容提要】 30年来的中国近代思想史研究，依据研究重心的变化可以分为三个阶段：一是1978年到80年代末，研究重点集中于思想家个案及政治思想史方面；二是80年代末到90年代末，研究重心逐渐转变为以社会思潮史及思想家个案为主；三是90年代末以来，研究重心集中于社会思潮史和学术思想史领域。正是在研究重心的逐渐转移过程之中，近代思想史研究的广度不断拓宽，研究深度亦渐次深化。改革开放之后中国学术界最引人注目的现象之一，是中国文化史研究的复兴；90年代以后中国文化史发展的新趋势，是社会文化史研究的勃然兴起。长期无人问津或受人冷落的研究领域，如近代科技文化、民间宗教、民间意识与观念、文化心态、公共空间领域、新词语与观念变迁等，受到学术界的广泛关注并出现了许多研究成果。近代社会文化史正在成为史学新观念和新方法的一个重要生长点。The researches on the history of modern Chinese thought and culture in the past 30 years, in accordance with the transformation of the emphasis of the research, can be divided into three stages: the first one is from 1978 to the late 1980s, in which the researches focused on the cases of ideologists and the history of political thought; the second one is from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, in which the emphasis of study had gradually shifted to the trends of social thought and the cases of ideologists; the last one is from the 1990s to the present, in which the studies have been concentrated upon the history of trends of social thought and the history of academic thought. In the transition process of the emphasis of study, the research scope of modern intellectual history has continuously broadened, and the research profundity of that has gradually deepened. One of the most remarkable phenomena after reform and opening-up is the revival of the research on Chinese cultural history. The new trend of the progress of Chinese cultural history since 1990s is the rise of the research on the history of societal culture. The research fields which have been out of favor for a long time, such as modern science and technology, folk religion, folk ideology and conception, cultural mentality, public space, new words and expressions, changes of c