On Luo Jialun’s Historiography

Luo Jialun, the famous person during the May 4th Movement.After the KMT retreated to Chinese Taiwan by Jiang Jieshi, he was asked to be the director of the editorial board member and history museum curator. He had a unique view in modern history research, as early as 1925, he proposed the plan to the studies on Chinese modern history. In 1930, after he published The Meaning and Ways of Research on Modern Chinese History, he was recognized as one of the founder of modern Chinese history research field. But in his youth, he didn’t pay more attention to the historical research, so the later scholars focus on his historicial research about his early compilation program and the theoretical claims. Due to political reasons, the scholars hardly mentioned his work during the Anti-Japanese War period and the Chinese Taiwan stage, which also left room for studying Luo Jialun.Luo Jialun is one of the people who named and lunched the May 4th Movement. After the end of the campaign, he chosed to return to the campus and wanted to save the country by Academic salvation, committed to the modern Chinese history. This is mainly the family education and school education lay a profound cultural and historical foundation to him; the personal experience of the May 4th movement let him realize that the lack of the knowledge leads to the blindness of the mass movement; the influence of Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi and Dr. Dewey convinced him that revolutionary theory is the foundation of all revolutionary Reseach.The Ranke Historiography claim combine academic and political research. Luo Jialun historiography emphasis on modern history research, advocate using the scientific method to study modern Chinese history.In practice, he besides collecting a large number of modern historical data, also the Sun Yat-sen’s historical data, the Republic of China and the KMT historical data to compile and print, during the period from 1930 s to 1940 s, he also from the perspective of history, through analyzing some social problems at that time, involved in the war of resistance, education, national defense, national problems, "May 4th" problem, etc., which contains a large number of historical data in these aspects of the works. In its gleaned from historical data and the writing process, can be found Luo Jialun treat history concept, namely to academic services to the politics of political history.Luo Jialun historical works is very limited, but his modern history theory research is scientific. He had a contribution to history construction of Tsinghua University and help Jiang Tingfu, Guo Tingyi with affirmative lead. Especially with his collection of data and his social experience, are extremely has historical value for later scholars to study the history of modern Chinese. In spite of his historical research have obvious political tendency, yet his contribution to modern Chinese history study, still get many scholars relevant evaluation.