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Rethinking The Study Of Mao Zedong In Terms Of The Conception Of History Since The Reform And Opening Up

Posted on:2021-03-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1486306728462204Subject:Marxism in China
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Since the reform and opening up,the field of Mao Zedong research is experiencing unprecedented prosperity.Meanwhile,the historical nihilism is also reappearing.Some researchers avoid mentioning the conception of history,re-evaluate Mao Zedong's life and thought in the title of "Restore the truth of history".Its remarkable characteristic is taking the academic research as the form,taking the real diagnosis historiography as the flaunt,with the value neutral banner,picking out some mistakes in Mao Zedong's magnificent life and making a great deal of it.All kinds of ridiculous remarks reflect the idealistic historicism and the metaphysical methodology,imply distinct value standpoint and political demands.In the scientific view of history,historical materialism not only provides the key to solve the mystery of history,but also provides a theoretical weapon to reveal the deep nature of historical nihilism.All historical events and figures are the products of specific historical conditions,so they must be understood and interpreted within a certain historical scope.Historical nihilism indulges in digging evidence from the dust of historical materials,pursues the paradigm that "Historiography is the study of historical materials",and takes the real historical materials out of the historical chain and specific context,to reconstruct the distorted historical picture in the way of "scissors and paste".Guided by the historical principle of historical materialism,we must return to the specific historical field to grasp the real historical materials and facts,put ourselves in the position to interpret Mao Zedong's theory and practice.Leaving the specific historical context,and extracting historical details from their historical context to explain,it will inevitably lead to subjective arbitrariness.Influenced by the positivist historiography,some researchers tend to excavate and verify details,try to replace the overall picture of history by the accumulation of historical facts blindly,and replace the authenticity of the whole history by the authenticity of historical details.On one hand,they made fragmentary research on Mao Zedong's grand career;On the other hand,they specially selected some mistakes or life fragments of Mao Zedong for "textual research".They attempt to subvert the macro historical conclusion with the authenticity of historical details.Guided by the totality method of historical materialism,we should not only deeply study the basic historical facts and their essential relations to enrich the understanding of the whole history,but also grasp the overall direction of historical development to investigate the real details in the macro historical framework and long-term historical process.The history of modern China is the history of the Chinese people striving for national independence and their individual liberation.In the complete cause of saving,rejuvenating and strengthening the country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China,Mao Zedong's great contributions have been remarkable.Although he has made some mistakes in the course of history inevitably,it is only a wrongly drawn line in the grand historical picture of national rejuvenation,which we should learn wisdom from.Guided by the historical dialectics of historical materialism,we must grasp the mainstream and essence of modern Chinese history through complicated historical phenomena,closely link with the historical theme of saving the nation from subjugation and realizing national rejuvenation to evaluate Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China scientifically.Some researchers avoid mentioning the historical mainstream and essence,and grab some historical details to make a fuss,it will deviate from the truth of history as a whole seriously.Humanities and social sciences as a science with obvious ideological attribute,it won't be value-free,historians can't do research in a vacuum of value.In fact,without a definite position consciousness,academic research can easily be compelled by a certain implicit ideology,and become the ideological prisoner of the ideological discourse system of western capitalism.Historical materialism clearly reveals the ideological nature and class nature of social sciences.All social sciences have the issue of value standpoint,the study of the history of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong are no exception.Researchers who claim to have no worthy positions tend to stand on a non-mainstream value standpoint.Therefore,in the study of the history of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong,the question is not whether researchers need a value standpoint,but lies in whether the value standpoint they hold is compatible with the objectivity of historical research.Since the modern era,the Chinese people have been constantly resisting foreign aggression and pursuing national rejuvenation.This history determines that only by focusing on the general trend of historical development and progress and only standing in the position of the Chinese nation and the majority of the Chinese people,we can correctly understand the history of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong;On the contrary,if we stand in the position of personal resentment or western society,it is bound to deviate from the objectivity of the study of the history of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong.
Keywords/Search Tags:study of Mao Zedong, historical nihilism, historical materialism
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