Historiography
by Xie Baocheng
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Historiography is a discipline that uses historical materials to study and describe human history to show the future. The development of Chinese historiography can be roughly divided into six stages: The pre-Qin period was the formation stage of historiography. During this period, a number of historical monographs that had many influences on later generations appeared, such as "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Zhuan", "Guoyu", and "Warring States Policy". The period from the early Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty was the stage when the status of history was established. During this period, historical works such as "Historical Records", "Han Shu", and "Hou Han Shu" appeared one after another, and biographical history books gradually gained the "supreme" status. The period from the mid-Tang Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty was the development stage of historiography. During this stage, the formation of the "Tongdian" and "Three Tong" series, the "Zizhi Tongjian" and the evolution of its genre, and the continuous revision of the chronicle-biographical "official history" constituted the three main pillars of the development of Chinese historiography. The early Qing Dynasty was a period when traditional historiography was returning to glory. During this period, official history books were much more than any previous dynasty, covering almost all major categories of history, showing the glory of historiography during the Qiang-Jia period. The late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China were a period of fission in historiography, and the development of historiography ushered in a new trend of thought called "historical revolution." The middle and late period of the Republic of China was a period of collision between old and new historiography. As a world historical trend, "democracy and science" collided with China's cultural traditions with an unstoppable force, which also caused some new changes in Chinese historiography itself.
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