很多年前,曾对一位研究中国近代史的朋友说,近代一段,可以六字总结,即满汉中西新旧。那是读大学本科时产生的一种朦胧感觉,年轻时不知轻重,故敢出大言而不惭。彼时我的学术自定位是研究中美关系史,这是说别人的领域,多少有些外行看热闹的味道。后来不知不觉中,自己成了“一般(中国)近代史”的研究者,中美关系史反倒成了类似胡适所说的“不感兴趣的兴趣”——兴趣始终在,积累也不少,却暂无余力深入。现在回看当年的信口开河,似不能说一点“史感”都没有,但 Many years ago, I once told a friend who has studied the modern history of China that for a certain period of time in modern times, the conclusion can be summarized in six words: Manchu and Han both the old and the new. It was a hazy feeling that I had when I was a bachelor’s undergraduate. When I was a young man, I did not know how important it was, so I dared not speak out loud. At that time, my academic self-positioning was to study the history of Sino-American relations. This is to say that other people’s fields are somewhat more laughed at by the outsiders. Later, unknowingly, he became a researcher of “general (Chinese) modern history,” and the history of Sino-American relations turned out to be similar to what Hu said. “Interests not of interest” - interests are always there and accumulation Not less, but temporarily no further force. Now look back at the letter of the year, can not say that “no sense of history”, but