2011年臺灣史研究的回顧與展望

Taiwan Historical Research in 2011: Retrospect and Prospect

本文以三個臺灣史研究所合辦之「2011年臺灣史研究的回顧與展望學術研討會」的回顧論文為基礎，試圖以政治史、經濟史、族群史（包括原住民史）、文學史、宗教史、醫療衛生史六個主題為主，統整性地回顧2011年臺灣史研究成果，並從其中對各時期、各類別研究成果進行討論。就各時代斷限的研究成果來說，通論性研究成果仍持續大幅減少，而日治與戰後的研究數量則持續上升，但日治時期的研究中，以日本學者的研究成果居多，臺灣學者在此時期研究的成果量下降。此外，早期與清代研究量雖有些微上升，但學位論文未有增長。在研究類別方面，文化史成果最多，政治史、經濟史略有成長，社會史則持續萎縮，研究類別的比例失衡情況不可忽視。近來，新史料陸續整理出版，固然對研究有所助益，日記、資料庫的使用當然值得重視，但是閱讀其他史料並進行比對，則不容忽視。其中，出現部分研究高度仰賴數位資料庫的檢索、無法或沒有翻閱紙本，導致引用史料的片段化，甚至去脈絡化的理解，影響研究內容。而檔案使用的法規限制，對臺灣史研究可能造成的影響，學界也有持續關注的必要。

Through reviewing papers presented at 'Taiwan Historical Research 2011: Retrospect and Prospect' organized by three institutes involved in research on Taiwan history, this article offers an integrated examination of the achievements in Taiwan historical research in the year 2011. The themes explored in these research works covered a wide spectrum of histories on politics, economics, ethnic (indigenous) groups, literature, religions, medicine and health. In terms of achievements in research on different eras, general research results continued to decrease markedly while there is a persistent increase in amount of studies on both Japanese colonial and post-war periods. However, research on the Japanese colonial era was mostly conducted by Japanese scholars while studies on the same period done by Taiwanese scholars were declining in number. Although slightly more research efforts were devoted to the early history and the Qing era, the number of dissertations on those periods showed no increase. In terms of categories, cultural history obtained the most research achievements. On the one hand, political history and economic history attained slight increase in research results; on the other hand, social history showed continuous decline in achievements. The significant imbalance in attainments among different research categories deserves greater attention.