Master Of The "Modernization Paradigm"

As a famous modern history expert in contemporary China,Li Shiyue selected the Revolution of 1911 as the starting point to explore the content of politics,economy,ideology and culture and their mutual relations in the Chinese society during the Revolution of 1911,and clarified many important issues,making a major contribution to the research on the history of the 1911 Revolution.At the same time,he also attached great importance to the study of mass movement that was neglected by many researchers and made pioneering contributions in the field of anti-foreign education struggle in modern China.At the beginning of the reform and opening process,Li Shiyue started from turning the case for the Westernization Movement,with great theoretical courage,breaking through the tradition argument based on "two process",which called "revolutionary history paradigm" selected "class struggles" and"fundamental contradictions" as the basic clues,focusing on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant movement,the Westernization Movement,the reform movement,and the bourgeois revolution as the main clues,to explore the development course of China's modern times,it put forward the "four-step theory" that has a huge impact and construct a "modernization paradigm" which goes hand in hand with the "revolutionary history paradigm".Li Shiyue set a benchmark for studying the "modernization paradigm" of modern Chinese history under the guidance of historical materialism through the re-understanding and discussion of the nature of modern China,the Westernization Movement,and the Boxer Movement.Li Shiyue devoted himself to the history career and exhausted his mind,his historical thoughts are still dazzling.He has a wealth of historical thought,he advocated using macro perspective to examine historical development as a whole movement and hoped to evaluate the role that the historical events and person played by objective and non-demanding standards.He considered that the dialectical combination of historical facts and historical theory is the principle of correctly understanding and applying the relationship between the two.He emphasized that we must stand at the height of the times to promote the reform of historiography,only in this way,we can use history to explore the law of historical development,explain the process of social development,and specify the direction of historical development.Li Shiyue who was both talented and intelligent in the study of modern history,showed his unique perspective and rich materials,preceded the concept and easily reached the literary thoughts,outstanding in using rhetoric and literary grace in his works of historiography.