Woman Scholars, Women's Studies And Oral Text

Many woman scholars in the history science world have achieved great success. The woman scholars such as Li Xiaojiang, Gao Shiyu, Ding Yizhuang, You Jianming and Duan Tali and their works have greatly fascinated me. As a woman, I'm awed by their abundant research achievements, not to mention their academic backgrounds and experience. Meanwhile, the desire to explore and research their trails arises spontaneously within me. This is why I have chosen this thesis for my master's degree.This article is a thesis for sorting out the materials. Mainly use the literature research methods. Its content consists of five parts:The first part sates the reasons for choosing this topic, looks back the related academic history. Linking my own reading preference and the procedure I get in touch with the oral accounts, I stated the origin of this thesis. The related academic history mainly consists of: 1, the procedure of woman research, including the origin, development and the present state of the woman research. 2, the looking back of the Chinese and foreign woman's oral account history. This is one of the woman research achievements and mainly includes the oral accounts history in the mainland, Hongkong, Taiwan and the U.S. 3, the looking back of the academic history of Li Xiaojiang, one of the woman scholars with great success in the research of woman's oral accounts, including her academic annals, her monographs and compiled works, her self-statements, and the record of comments on her and her works at home and abroad in Appendix. In sorting out the materials, we on the whole grasped the main line of the development of the woman research, including the establishment of the status of this subject, the research methods, the research objects and the research achievements; the developing course and achievements of woman oral accounts history; The academic experience and achievements of Li Xiaojiang, the leading exponent in the woman oral account research in the 20th century in Chinese mainland.The second part includes the reasons why the compilers wrote the books. The reasons the compilers wrote the books are as follows: 1, To explore the unknown fields. 2, Try to prove women's contribution for society and history. 3, To positively and urgently save and perfect the woman history. 4, The enlightenment by other researchers in the academic world. 5, To train successors and facilitate the development of oral account history.The third part Series of the contents of each volume summary.The forth part review the series of books also reflect the academic norms by which the historians abide, including: 1, They reflect the most important feature of the oral history, which is how to approach to and research history. 2, The oral accounts and documents can crossrefer and prove each other. 3, The accounts in one's own words and that in other's words can crossrefer and prove each other. 4, The oral accounts reflect the mutual acts by the interviewers and the interviewees. 5, The interviewers are mainly historical teachers, but there are also interviewers of other academic backgrounds and different ages. 6, The video recordings of the interviews and related historical documents are all filed. The lists of the interviewers and interviewees are all recorded in detail at the end of each one of the 4-volume books.The fifth part is the conclusion (Understanding) , it summarizes women's advantages in oral history. They are cordial, careful, rigorous, normal and persevering. At the other hand, it also refers to Professor Su Zhiliang's experience, which comes from practice, points out the shortcomings of the woman oral historical books in the 20th century, and also looks ahead the significance the woman scholars will make for Chinese women's future.