Research On Jonathan D. Spece's Historical Thouth

Jonathan D. Spence is the distinguished expert about the American China studies at the present time, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and the chairman of American Historical Association at one time. Making the historical ontology , epistemology and methodology as the studying point of penetration and based on the academic background of the developing overview since World WarⅡand the evaluative tendency of the American China studies , the dissertation attempts to analyze the Jonathan D. Spence's historical thought. At the same time, the author also studies the influence of some famous historians.There are three parts in the thesis including the introduction, three chapters and the conclusion.In the introduction, the author elaborated the situations of the external and internal research on Jonathan D. Spence's historical thought, the author's purports, design of the thesis and the main viewpoints.In the first chapter, the author expatiated on studying experiences and depthly analyses Jonathan D. Spence's thought and it's forming cause through the theory of the historical ontology.In the second chapter, the author explained Jonathan D. Spence's historic thought. The author objectively analyses Jonathan D. Spence's historic thought, practice and the achievements about the American China studies from the Angle of the historical epistemology and methodologyIn the third chapter , the author attempts to make reasonable evaluation on Jonathan D. Spence's historic thought.In the conclusion, the author summed up the thesis and evaluated the style of Jonathan D. Spence's historical research.