Comment On Lattimore’s Conception Of Chinese History

Owen Lattimore is generally acknowledged as the frontier historian, whose views and opinions greatly shook the United States academic. He has lived in China for many years, to take advantage of opportunities to walk in China’s borderland and inner Asia, so he were generally known as "hiking historian."His academic works became classics of the frontier research. This article aims at clarifying and analyzing of Shealtiel, Moore research on Chinese history, revealing its academic innovations and breakthroughs, and trying to pull iron Mole the academic influence of Chinese history and the limitations for analysis.Frontier history paradigm is Lattimore of academic based, its academic thought of starting point, he through field investigation, to broad of vision on China frontier history for has unique of analysis and research, he will nomadic civilization put to and agricultural civilization equal of history status, breakthrough has traditional China history research of form, from China mainland and frontier of history interactive to research China history of development process, and in North Asia nomadic who of origin, and nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization of interactive, and frontier transition Strip, aspects has many innovation sex of views, For our study of China’s frontier have made important contributions to the field.Lattimore frontier history from the perspective of an important perspective is one of the country’s history, is one of his most important academic achievement. Lattimore subversive view of history in the past, observed throughout China’s history from frontier field, that frontier is a powerful driving force of China’s historical development, controlling and contention in the transition zone of the great wall, dynasty of dynasties and nomadic forces of this trade-off, in border areas to interaction. Chinese history periodically to a large extent it is subjected to such frontier impact of historical interaction.Class conflict theory is the core of Lattimore’s academic thought, from China in terms of the relationships between landlords and peasants of history, analysis of relationship between class-ridden, trying to use them to take advantage of China’s law of development of historical cycles.As with many Western scholars, Lattimore’s theory of class antagonism highlight machinery, there are many problems, lack of in-depth exploration of social complexity. Even so, Lattimore’s theory of class antagonism stressed the importance of farmers’problems, the development of our modern society has a certain role.Last is on Lattimore academic thought of research method, and effects and the limited, through on Lattimore of academic thought research method of analysis, he of research promoted has on nomadic civilization history and frontier paradigm thought of research, attention farmers problem, its shortcomings also extremely obviously, exaggerated frontier factors on China history of effects, ignored on China mainland social of research, this segment through listed its research of effects and shortcomings, to yu academic further of understanding Lattimore of China history views.