The Research Of Chinese Historiography Of Naito Konan

Naito Konan is a famous Sinologist with remarkable academic achievements. The writer intends to compare the research results of Chinese Historiography with Naito’s major works, especially The History of Chinese Historiography, and to discuss Naito’s contribution to Chinese historiography history from the following perspective of Naito’s theory: the historiography concepts, the law of historiography development, the changes in Chinese historiography, the exploration of Chinese historians and historical schools, etc. The article is mainly about: firstly, Naito and his research. Naito was a Japanese historian and founder of Kyoto School of Historiography, who made significant contribution to historiography analysis, classics collection and verification. Secondly, Naito’s research on ancient Chinese historiography concept, focusing on Orthodox, and analyzing Naito’s comment on Chinese historiography concept from the following aspects:the monarchy study, all classic works are about history, and the verification. Thirdly, explore Naito’s investigation into the style of historiography and the way of compiling historiography. Fourthly, summarizing Naito’s compliments on historians like Wang Yinglin, Yang Shen and Wang Fuzhi, and analyzing the two major historic schools in Qing dynasty: Eastern Zhejiang School and Western Zhejiang School. Then explore Naito’s opinions on ancient Chinese historians and historic schools. From the above aspects, we may found that Naito’s research is special for the following reasons:he focused on the study of historical materials, emphasized Classic Historical, paid great attention to the originality and theorization of historiography. In addition, he was adept in exploring the source of historical events from the past until the present, could compare not only the difference of history in the same era, but also the difference of same historical ideas in different eras. From Naito Historiography, the writer has obtained a better understanding of Naito’s deep academic research capability, and figured out the develop context of Chinese Historiography, as well as the development progress of ancient Chinese historiography. Besides, we can learn more about Naito’s unique research spirit, i.e. being serious about the genuine source and research itself. All in all, Naito Konan made great effects on modern Chinese history and Chinese historical history. Through the deep research into Naito Konan, we can learn more about himself and get better knowledge of the establishment and development of historical history.