The Tendency Of Chinese Modern History Research In Recent Years

Chinese modern history research passed through the 20th century hardship and has already developed into a relative independent and mature subject in the Chinese history field. The magazine, "Modern History Research", specializes in publishing high-level academic achievements of the Chinese modern history research and promptly responds to the development of the modern history research, papers on which represent the main achievements of the modern history research and reflect its characteristics and the development of principle During the decade, a connecting link between the preceding century and the following one, Chinese modern history research kept its pace with the times, changed a lot and gained plentiful and substantial achievements, but at the same time it also faced a problem-how to develop better. This paper surveys the amount of the articles and the authors, the situations of their workplaces and their published articles on "Modern History Research" from 1994 to 2006, synthetically analyzes the development direction which the scholars pay attention to, the width and depth of the research areas, author distribution and so on. It suggests the characteristic and main development tendency of Chinese modern history in recent years are looser research environment. Also , a more practical style of study and attention on scholar research; research direction adjusted timely, research areas opened up unceasingly and much deeper content; theory and method research with innovation, fashion research interdisciplinary, flourish research with demonstration; the research troop expands unceasingly, high school becomes the main research force; more attention to scholar exchange, Chinese and foreign histories developing mutually. Forecasting the development of the Chinese modern history research, the opportunity and the challenge are neck to neck. The development direction of Chinese modern history research should based on the future society development tendency of China and the world, according to the development logic of the scholar research, sequentially strengthen, deepen and make up the frail and plain areas in the past research, start new research areas to adapt to the society development demands. As an authority magazine, "Modern history Research" should make a guidance function on the construction and development of subjects, also it should strengthen itself and lead the Chinese modern history research to obtain a bigger development in the 21st century along a health track.