| Qi Sihe is one of the Young Turk of scholar on the history of the Republic of China. He not only has a deep root of Chinese culture, but also received training of Western scientific methods, who is an outstanding representative scholars studied in America of the first half of the twentieth century. Based on this background, Qi Sihe has made a remarkable achievement in the study of Chinese history and the history of the world, especially the history of the pre-Qin and the world of medieval.Qi Sihe has a contribution of new extension on theoretical construction of the New History of the Republic. In Western, he introduces the bibliographic that can reflect the trends of the Western historians development timely by virtue of the national history knowledge and understanding of the European and American historians, and the latest foreign historians ideas and methods into China to build a set of system historians theories and research methods.Qi Sihe explores actively from the three levels of social and economic, institutional and thoughts in the history study of Pre-Qin Dynasty, combining the research of economic history and social forms, structure and life to tap the economic life of society as a whole and all the people, which expands the single category of traditional economic history; And he reveals the relationship between institutional and social change, land relations and the change of rights though the pre-Qin system research; About the history of thoughts, Qi Sihe is able to multum in parvo and cut from the special points or historical issues to re-sort the origins, development and changes of the pre-Qin thoughts, which showing the development context of the pre-Qin history of thoughts for readers.Both the excavation of economic history of the pre-Qin or exploration of the institutional history and dynasty the history of thoughts, Qi Sihe’s research has shown two distinct characteristics:First, the comparative study of Chinese and Western, which communicate the history of China with foreign history and compare the similar historical phenomenon between Chinese and foreign to promote the study of local scholars from foreign research on China and finds the problems which can as their research goals. Second, taking account of textual criticism (historical) and social history (historical view) both on the specific phenomenon, details discrimination and textual research and important system, major changes in the macro-discover, which debouch of a road of fusion in historical research.Newspapers and magazines were a main platform for the spreading of academic achievements and the communication between the scholars in Republic of China, and it also be an important sign of history specialization. During he served as editor-in-chief of "History Annual","Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies","Yenching Social Sciences ", he makes his publications as a platform which have a gravity of equality and open academic vision, gathered a group of scholars together to demonstrate their academic. On the Academic, Book Review always provided a new evaluation mechanism for modern academic.Qi Sihe comments on the history of Republic from historians atmosphere and historical works. He has a clear understanding of the development and the pros and cons of the New History, and points the problems and makes recommendations for the school of anecdotes and social history, and also interprets the relationship of case studies and general history study, and even points out many problems in the history teaching. At the same time, he holds an objective attitude to evaluate the representative historical works at home and abroad whether Marxist scholars and foreign scholars, textual and Social History articles.Qi Sihe always has many like-minded mentorships, who not only enriched his academic life, but also affected his path intentionally and unintentionally in the academic of Republic of China. Fan Wenlan laid a solid foundation of national history for him, who is the guider of the Qi Sihe’s historical research road in the initial stage. Gu Jiegang inspired him to research ancient history, and they were sympathetic and ingratiated themselves with articles. Hong Ye, who was a good judge of talents, valued Qi Sihe and recommended him to go to Harvard to learn about American history that laid a good foundation for him be a historian of thorough knowledge of both western and Chinese learning in the future.Qi Sihe played an important role of modern transformation of in the Republic History. In the aspect of research methods, he used to take advantage of Chinese and Western history, was good at both comparable studies and borrowing the research methods of auxiliary discipline and related disciplines; In the field of research, he had a comprehensive study about pre-Qin history of social and economic history institutional history and the history of ideas creatively, which made up for the previous single mode of Ancient History; He advocated the combination of the thematic studies and social history, especially, thematic studies as a National Historical transformation; In the history specialization, he opened up new media and created a mechanism of book reviews as a platform for modern academic criticism by exploring the editing historians publication actively. Qi Sihe is a first-class historian in the history of the Republic. |
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