A Probe Of Some Chinese Oral History Theoretical Issues

At present,the development of oral history in China has gradually changed from the early boom to regular growth.The early rapid growth brought about the prosperity of oral history practice and text,but the theoretical research is relatively weak,resulting in serious homogenization and low quality of practice and text.After the rapid growth,it is time to think calmly about the theory of oral history,in order to promote the specialization and quality of practice and text.In the early years,although China also has theoretical works on oral history,most of the research focused on academic history,methodology and definition,nature,classification and other basic theories,the depth and breadth of the study need to be strengthened.The significance and importance of the topic “A probe of Some Chinese Oral History Theories” lies in attempt to explore and develop the oral history theory of China by taking the main weaknesses and difficulties of the present theoretical study of Chinese oral history as a breakthrough.This article consists of five chapters,which mainly discusses the stratification,motivation and evaluation of oral history,memory,narrative and emotional problems in oral history,which are the weaknesses and difficulties in the current theoretical study of oral history in China.Among them,the first chapter,“the Stratification of Oral History”,analyzes the basic problems of “what oral history is”,and puts forward the theoretical conception of stratified research,leading to the full text.Specifically,the oral history is divided into three levels: seeking truth,cognition and aesthetics,and reveals the main composition of oral history-stating facts,expressing cognition and displaying aesthetics.The second to the fifth chapter study the specific theoretical issues.The second chapter,“The Motivation of Oral History”,answers the question of “why we do oral history”,in order to better promote and guide the practice of oral history.Based on the concept of “the unity of knowledge and practice”,this chapter combines “thinking” with “doing”,and sums up andanalyzes a variety of motivations and corresponding paths of oral history,as well as the causes of motivation.The third chapter,“Memory and Narration in Oral History ”,interprets and analyzes oral history from memory and narrative level respectively.Including,focusing on the topic “memory is the core of oral history”,pointing out the difference between memory research and oral history research,and putting forward the viewpoint that “the transmission of memory is the key” in oral history;The narrative in oral history is further divided into “oral narrative” and“text narrative”,“simple narrative” and “complex narrative”and so on,which aim to promote the study of oral history narrative issues.The fourth chapter is “The‘Emotional Turn’ of Oral History”,focusing on “emotion”,an important part of oral history.The study of oral history from the perspective of emotional history and the strengthening of emotional analysis and interpretation in oral history.The fifth chapter,“The Evaluation of Oral History ”,discusses the common problems of“how to evaluate the quality and value of oral history”,including the evaluation of oral history practice and the evaluation of oral history text.The main basis of practice evaluation lies in the transparency of practical work and the innovation of theoretical methods.The focus of text evaluation lies in the evaluation of the authenticity of the content and the rationality of understanding.Oral history,as a method,is not only used in history,but also concerned and adopted by related disciplines.Therefore,the above theoretical studies attach importance to the interdisciplinary nature of oral history,taking into account the understanding and application of oral history from a multidisciplinary perspective,based on,but not limited to,historiography perspective,including philosophy,psychology,sociology,linguistics,journalism and other multidisciplinary perspectives,and draw nutrition from multidisciplinary theory to assist the theoretical study of oral history.Of course,theory cannot be separated from practice and text.In particular,to discuss the theory of oral history of China,we should pay more attentionto the acquisition and analysis of the practice and practice of oral history of China.The paper pays the particular attention to the recent oral history practice and texts,in order to obtain the most cutting-edge experience to assist in theoretical research.But at the same time,theoretical researchers should not only rely on the extraction of direct experience from practice and text,and the reference to the existing relevant theoretical knowledge is also indispensable.The article regards learning from relevant multidisciplinary theories as the main growth point of the theoretical research on oral history of China at present.