英文摘要 |
The Transition of the Paradigms of Traditional Chinese Historiography, by Professor Qian Maowei, is a voluminous work. It constitutes three different parts, of which the first part deals with narrative historiography, the second part deals with moral and practical orientated historiography, while the last part treats the textual criticism historiography. These three sorts of historiography which represent the three different eras of Traditional Chinese historiography are named by Professor Qian as the three different paradigms of Traditional Chinese historiography. Such a conception is quite unique, hence remarkable. However, such an idea of demarcation has its weakness too. In a word, these three historiographies coincide or overlap with one another, at least to certain extent. In consequence, drawing a line of clear demarcation in Traditional Chinese historiography is not quite appropriate. |