Analysis Of Fu Ssu-nien's Historical Theory

Fu Ssu-nien was one of the most influential figures in the colorful twentieth-century undoubtedly. When we are speaking of a " historical revolution ", he was the man who can't be neglected. However, there has been few serious study of Fu's. Historians have also large failed to acknowledge Fu's contribution to their field. This text will study biography, academic work and other related file of Fu Ssu-nien, try to analysis his historiography thought, historical method and historiography achievement etc. This is not only a research task, but also self-discipline. When we talk about former scholars' study history, their success and failure, it is actually a selection of study tradition and study criterion.The focus of Fu Ssu-nien's the most systematic blueprint for his historical studies was the pursuit of objective historical study and the training of professional histrorians. He assert that" Historiography is equal to historical data", highlighted that the significance of primary sources to an unprecedented extent and also emphasized the need to widen the scope of historical data, his strategy to exaggerate his proposition slightly in order to call attention to it. He emphasized the pursuit of objectivity based on new primary sources and not on secondary descriptions. He contend that scholars should change their attitude, Not only written data were valuable but that all materials, no matter how scattered, were of equal historical value.Fu believed that the modern Western historiography owed its success to the abundance of the new data. Only by drawing from these new sources, he argued, were historians able to develop new historical criticism. Nevertheless, traditional textual materials such were not totally discarded; they were utilized as complements to field study. He firmly believed that the Chinese academic community could not be separated from the international academic world. His longing to bring the world's orientological center from Paris and Berlin back to Peking.Fu is legendary as an academic administrator and is well known for his academic accomplishments. He opened new pages of Chinese historical study, and his farsighted leadership help to spread his historical theories. Fu believed that research should be a collective enterprise. Fu was aware that in China there had been few enduring private academic organizations comparable with those in Western nations. Fu advocated that research should be undertaken in a cooperative manner as in the modern West.