Studies On Fang Shiming's History Research

Fang Shiming is a famous modern historian in our country, and he is abundant in writings and got great achievements in history. However, there were sporadic introductory essays that could be counted referred briefly to him, on the circumstance of the lacking of a whole and deep research on his historical thought, so it will make sense to study his historical achievements. This paper intends to explore Fang Shiming's historical method and thought.Fang Shiming committed to the historical research all along his life, it involved in the Chinese modern history and ancient history, and he did a thorough research on the Han political history, Shanghai Small Sword Society Uprising, collation of ancient books. Especially he had a good command of the Han political history, represented as" the comment on the figures of the Three Kingdoms Period". Historical figure played a prominent part in this book, and he paid much attention to the characters, cultural analysis, and unified political history, psychological history, and regional cultural history research, and gave proper nouns to the person id types, so there were many new perspectives in the book. Besides, he had a profound study in the Shanghai Small Sword Society Uprising too, he clarified the controversial origin of Shanghai Small-Sword Society. He presided over the codification of the Shanghai Society Uprising compilations of historical material, owing to its informative and credible historical facts, and it was widely cited. Moreover, He was very successful in the collation of ancient books. With the solid research, comprehensive reference, and accurate punctuation, the books named "Ancient Bamboo Annals Series Card "and"22history test" which were mainly compiled by Fang Shiming was received by other scholars. And Fang Shiming was respected by the scholars both at home and abroad.Fang Shiming had his own characteristics in the study of historical methods. He paid great attention to historical materials, and he was diligent in writing small articles. In his study, not only Literature was made full use, but also excavated materials. Thanks to his academic innovation spirits. He detailed in what others overlooked and ignored what others detailed, all in all, he had many new perspectives in his study.