Tao Xi - Sheng With Food And Goods School Studies

Shihuo school, taking China's social economic history as the interest of the history research, was founded in the 1930s. The writer has collected a wide range of historical materials to study the Shihuo school and the school founder Tao Xisheng by revolving the academic association between Tao Xisheng and Shihuo school to study the rise and fall evolution of school history, examining the academic thinking, academic achievements and socio-political factors'influence on academic research whitin the context of the whole development of modern Chinese history and, finally, discussing the school's values and its historical role.Chapter one, TaoXisheng and Social History Controversy. The debate on chinese social history resulted from Tao Xisheng's research on the China's social structure promoted the development of social and economic history of China and expedited the Shihuo school.Chapter two, TaoXisheng and the formation of Shihuo school. Shihuo Semimonthly, which was the major academic platform of Shihuo school spread the founder Tao Xisheng's historical concepts of paying attention both on historical theory and materials and attracted a group of scholars with similar academic orientation who formed a fixed written groups. However, people who published papers on Shihuo semimonthly were not all the members of Shihuo school. Comparing and analyzing the relationships between Tao Xisheng and Shihuo Semimonthly's writters, the academic thoughts and views and learning methods, the writer has defined the main components of Shihuo school. The main members of Shihuo school are TaoXisheng, JuQingyuan, HeZiquan, WuXianqing, ShenJuchen, ZengJian, LianShisheng.Chapter three, TaoXisheng and Shihuo school's academic research. The writer has inspected the Shihuo school's historical theories and historical achievements by collecting historical materials, translating western theoretical methods and studying special subjects. Comparing the Shihuo school's academic views on ancient China land system, taxation with that of some scholars in the modern days, the writer has confirmed the innovation of some points of Shihuo school in some areas. meanwhile, the limitations of their academics have also been pointed out. Moreover, through refering some political factors in analyzing Shihuo school's academic research the paper states the fact that the academic research of Shihuo school was affacted by their political stand as members of Kuomintang.Chapter four, TaoXisheng and the decline of Shihuo school. In the beginning of anti-japanese war, some members of Shihuo school drived by the popular thought of compromising to Japan joined the peace movement with Tao Xisheng. At the critical moment, Tao Xisheng puppeted out of WangJingwei group, but other members of Shihuo school falled to be traitors. At this point, major differences came into the members of Shihuo school, and the school developed from prosperity to decline. Since then, Tao Xisheng called Zengjian,LlanShisheng together to establish Shihuo Weekly on Nanjing Central Newspaper Daily hoping to restore the academic reputation of Shihuo school. However, at this time, Shihuo school advocated new confucian classics and focused on academic statecraft function which revealed the intention of servicing Kuomintang government. Finally, over-penetration between the political intention and academic research eventually resulted in Shihuo school's withdrawing from the stage of history.Chapter five, briefly reviewed the historical status of TaoXisheng and Shihuo school. Shihuo school, holding the important point of combining theory and historical data, explored actively new areas of social and economic history research and established new ideas which has made outstanding academic contributions to promote social and economic history of China and occupied an important place in chinese academic history.