Study On Shen Gangbo’s Historiography

Shen Gangbo is a significant historian who emigrated from mainland China to Taiwan in the 20 th century. His historical achievements covered a wide range and rich content, the most prominent historical achievements are the theory of historiography and social change and the study of compare chinese and western historiography.Since Shen Gangbo witnessed the revolution in 1911, while he studying abroad and moving to Taiwan of China, even he establishing the National Taiwan University College of Liberal arts and History doctoral specialties, Shen Gangbo has made a great large of achievement: researching history, learning, teaching and many more.Shen Gangbo was accepted by Chinese historians like Wang Fuzhi,Liang QIchao, Huang Zongxi, and affected by western popular thinking like Comte’s positivism, Hegel’s historical philosophy. It makes Shen Gangbo has the commonality of Taiwan historian historical subject explanation like other historical in same time, and also has the personality of the ability of comparison Chinese and western historiography.Shen Gangbo’s achievement of historiography focused on Western ancient history, the history of Chinese and Western Cultural, the history of Chinese and Western thought and the history of Chinese and Western academic. He absorbs the viewpoints about the origin of history from other historian, combining research methods Egyptian hieroglyphs, and produced a special insight. He has the unique view about Confucian, Taoist and other genres’ merging,dying and developing,stress the effect of personal in schools of thought. Shen Gangbo’s research perspective on ancient West is more macroscopic, research on historical works based on characteristics of the times. The study of ancient Greek literature and culture from a geographic point of view,study the Rise of the Renaissance from the perspective of environment and race.Shen Gangbo based on learning knowledge in his life, summed up the "erudite, perforation,summarize", "rectification of the names" history and other learning history methods, and the formation of an unique historical theory, on the one hand, pay attenti-on to the time of history, studying Toynbee under the philosophy of history in his tim-e environment, and the other hand, pay attention to the situation of the relationship.St-ate of the world changes the more urgent,the faster of the development of history, it c-omplements between each other.Shen Gangbo research the history for more than sixty years, although there is no representative literary work,but his historiography thought affect manyresearcher. He also had a lot contemporary with historian exchange, such as Zhu Jiahua, Fu Sinian, Hu Shi, Yu Dawei, Dong Zuobin, Jiang Mengling, Chen Faren, Li Xuanbo, Luo Jialun, Du Weiyun and so on, he affected other academic trend directly or indirectly,open situation in the comparative study of Chinese and Western historians regard.