二十世纪九十年代以来,近代中国历史研究已经开始了真正意义上的范式(paradigm)转移。如果说,八十年代文学界的“重写文学史”的诉求,曾经让历史研究显得相对封闭、滞后与保守,那么进入九十年代以后,历史研究的悄然变革已经全面展开了。虽然我们可以看到,从二十世纪八十年代开始,历史研究的视野就不再局限于狭窄的政治史一隅,社会史的引入,文化史的昌盛,人口史的异军突起,已经冲破了正统主流的单一模式,但那只能算是史 Since the 1990s, the study of the history of modern China has begun a paradigm shift in the true sense. If we say that the appeal of “rewriting literary history” in the 1980s has made history research relatively closed, lagging and conservative, then the quiet transformation of historical research has been fully launched since the 1990s. Although we can see that from the 1980s onward, the field of historical research is no longer confined to the corner of narrow political history. The introduction of social history, the prosperity of cultural history and the sudden emergence of the population history have broken through the orthodox mainstream Single mode, but that can only be regarded as history