英文摘要
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At present, discussions on ”Historiographical Revolution” could fill volumes of books. However, we should notice that the term coined by Liang Qi-chao is intricately and inseparably linked to the school of advanced thinking that became a trend at the end of Qing Dynasty. Liang's early views of evolutionism benefited from Kang You-wei and Yan Fu and gradually took shape under the influences of Kato Hiroyuki and Fukuzawa Yukichi during his exile in Japan. Liang's perspectives offered a re-examination of the development of China's history.
Introduction to the History of China and New History, published by Liang in 1901 and 1902 respectively, marked the critical beginning of traditional historiography's transformation to modern historiography in China. In these writings, Liang borrowed from the concepts of Ukita Kazutami in his work An Introduction to History and cited numerous examples in his criticism of traditional historiography while advocating the concept of evolutionism that bears sociological elements and illustrated the era's demands for new historiography. Through the launch of his calls for ”Historiographical Revolution”, which proved to be powerful and influential, Liang successfully led the discipline of Chinese historiography from its outdated state, to the path towards the contemporary historical structure. Liang had extensive and profound influence over scholars of his time and aspiring scholars during the May Fourth Movement.
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