史学家研究中国的角度一向难以预料。例如现代中国的思想史家很快便接受了这样的观念:到了1898年,今文经学已是激进儒家如康有为和梁启超的最后阵地。在现代中国思想史的叙事性解释里,早期的今文经学者如魏源和龚自珍被描写为晚清改革家的先驱。晚清学术圈关于今文经学的争议,导致对于孕育与发展这个运动的历史环境的错误呈现。直线发展的解释将历史叙事安排成清楚的阶段,从康有为一直回溯到魏源 The historian's perspective on China has always been unpredictable. For example, historians of thought in modern China quickly accepted the notion that by 1898, this text classics was the last position of radical Confucians such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. In the narrative explanation of the history of modern Chinese thought, the early modern scholars such as Wei Yuan and Gong Zizhen were portrayed as pioneers of the late Qing reformers. The controversy in the late Qing academic circles about the Jinwenjing led to the wrong presentation of the historical environment of the campaign to nurture and develop. Straight-line interpretation of the development of historical narrative arrangements for a clear stage, from Kang Youwei has been traced back to Wei Yuan