A Research On Popular History In The First Half Of The 20^th Century

Popular history has accepted by academia and been a term in recent years after the 1980s.For the transmission and popularization of historical knowledge,historians adapt and transform professional historical knowledge into the popular readings which easy to understand by the strict academic discipline of historical norms.The essential character of popular history is scientific,and popularization is the external forms of popular history.There are two main tasks for historian:one is professional study, the other is transmission and popularization of historical knowledge.The two tasks are equally important.The study about popular history has both academic and social value.The topic limits the development of popular history in the first half of the 20^thcentury,survey popular history in this period,and select some historians as the individual cases of the transmission and popularization of historical knowledge.The main idea of each chapter is as follows:Chapter 1:Introducing about popular history.There is a strict definition for popular history to prevent confusing history with literature.Popular history has two basic characters: scientific criticism and popularity.Popular history began in Song Dynasty and reached a peak in Ming Dynasty in ancient China.Chapter 2:A overview about popular history in the first half of the 20^th Century.Popular history in the first half of the 20^thCentury was affected by the train of New Historiography thought.The reform of education, advocating bai-hua which is a literary style that used common expressions and vocabulary,and the modern publishing industry promoted the development of popular history.Popular history covered the all branch of history and had some notable features about editorship of popular readings.But there were many problems of popular history in this period.Chapter 3:Popular history with the New Historiography paradigm.Most of historians engaged in transmission and popularization of historical knowledge purposefully and had the obvious achievements in both theory and practice in the first half of the 20^thcentury.Liang Qi chao,Lv Si mian,Gu Jie gang and Li Dong fang were typical historians in the area of popular history.Chapter 4:Popular history of Marxist historians.Marxist Historians also had the obvious achievements in popular history.Marxist historians always paid more attention to popularization of historical knowledge and adapted a number of popular readings which inspired the people fighting for Chinese revolution.