The Acedemic World Of The Chinese Historical Geography

Chinese history had experienced a great change during the 20^th century, it rooted in the change of the nation and society and closely linked to them, which made scholar research achieved the unprecedented altitude with society's interaction. "New History" which published by Liang Qichao destructed the traditional history, the introduction of west academics also led the arrival of modern history. The historical idea,method,area have changed a lot, many new areas had been developed. Based on it, modern discipline system of history was established. At the same time, the appearance of academic periodicals especially historical periodicals promoted the development of modern history. Depending on these periodicals, scholars can exchange their methods and achievements, those who had a common goal may formed a school or ideological trend, therefore, historical periodicals was very important for modern history. The Chinese Historical Geography for Historical Geography was a typical instance.Evolution geography is an important part of traditional history, this domain gained remarkable achievements, many famous historians and works emerged. Although it declined at the late of Qing and early of Republic of China, it recovered at the 20-30 ages on 20^th century which related to the situation of China. Gu Jiegang and Tan Qixiang and their students formed YuGong association and published The Chinese Historical Geography. Their main target was to seek a stable foundation for history. Though it was forced to close after July seventh ,1937, its achievements were obvious. On one hand, it changed its research areas, border area, national history and contemporary history substituted evolution geography which brought the coming of modern historical geography. On the other hand, more and more scholars joined this academic society and composited a professional grope.As an academic periodical which founded by personal association, The Chinese Historical Geography embarked from the textual criticism, took academic research for their weapons to save the nation, it achieved a balance between perusing the truth and perusing the practical use, it also got so many fabulous achievements. More important, it raised quantity of scholars who became prop of Chinese historical educational world. Like their teachers, they also raised their disciples and made their progresses which formed a charming story of Chinese academic world.