回望而以前行：引入早期的社会科学研究视角观察当代中国  

Constructing the Field of Contemporary Chinese History

作　　者：裴宜理[1] 

机构地区：[1]哈佛大学

出　　处：《社会科学》2015年第11期143-145,共3页Journal of Social Sciences

摘　　要：由于普遍忽视研究毛泽东时代中国具有里程碑意义的研究成果,在美国学界营造出一个很不完善的当代中国研究的学术氛围,年轻一代的学者实际上在不断进行"重复论证"的工作。尽管(或者说由于)可以利用政府档案,也可以随时来中国进行相关口述访谈,但是这些新近研究的视野都无一例外显得狭窄,对于熟悉早前社会科学研究者的研究著作的人而言,他们几乎没有提供任何令人惊喜的新经验或分析。因此,对于如何在美国更好地推进当代中国史研究,我的建议很简单:回顾而以前行。我们需要认真研习前辈美国社会科学研究者已获得的基础性的学术成果,以期拓展、阐释,必要时推翻他们颇具挑战性的结论和观点。The result of the general neglect of a generation of outstanding landmark studies of Mao＇s China is that we have a field in the U. S. an underdeveloped field of contemporary Chinese studies in which younger scholars are in effect constantly ＂reinventing the wheel＂. Despite （or perhaps because of） the availability of government archives and ready access to interviewees living in the PRC, the new studies are uniformly narrow in scope and offer few empirical or analytical surprises to anyone familiar with the writings of an earlier generation of social scientists. My recommendation for improving the field of contemporary China studies in the U. S. is therefore a simple one： look backward in order to move forward. Let＇s seriously engage with the foundational scholarship of an earlier generation of American social scientists in order to extend, elaborate -- and, where warranted, to overturn -- their provocative findings and arguments.

关 键 词：当代中国 回望而以前行 

分 类 号：K27[历史地理—历史学]