ABSTRACT
In the first ten years after the founding of the People’s Public of China, the focus of the historians’ circle turned to studying and applying historical materialism, re-understanding history and criticizing non-Marxist historiography. The focus of academic discussion was mostly on the macro theoretical issues of history closely related to social revolution. The research on the history of modern historiography in this period has also reached a considerable scale in the accumulation and compilation of basic data and the summary of research results. A noteworthy work is Yu Danchu’s long article “A Preliminary Examination of Neo-Historiography in China in Early 20th Century” published in Journal of Historiography in 1982 and 1983. If the research on the history of modern Chinese historiography in 1980s was still in its pioneering stage, then the 1990s would have been its first harvest season, which was clearly reflected in the sharp increase in the number of works on the history of modern Chinese historiography.
