This is a mandatory course designed for the first year research postgraduate students of the History Department. The goal is to prepare the students with a wide-range knowledge of modern historiography. Through a series of lectures by invited professors (including potential supervisors of new students), the students could have the chance to learn and appreciate various approaches to the study of history.

At the lectures, the invited professors will share with students their research experience and present their research projects or findings in class focusing on research methodologies, approaches, and issues related to historiography, i.e., the writing of history based on the critical use of sources, the selection of particulars from the sources and the synthesis of particulars that will demonstrate the author’s historian’s crafts, other techniques of inquiry and investigation, or writing skills. If available, a list of readings, which may or may not be the speaker’s own works, can be provided by the professor to support the lecture.

The lecture may last about 60 minutes. The enrolled students are required to attend all classes. After the lecture, students may ask questions or present their comments on the lecture as well as the readings. Each student should give oral feedback on at least 5 lectures. By the end of the term, each student should turn in three critical reports on three selected topics among the lectures (average 5 pages each in Chinese or English). In addition, they are to submit revised thesis project proposals which are polished from the ones submitted when they applied for admission to the postgraduate programme. It is expected that the revisions are improved works inspirited by this course.

Assignments

1.Three critical reports on three selected topics among the lectures (average 5 pages each in Chinese or English)

2.Revised thesis project proposal

Assessment

1. Two critical reports        30%

2. Revised thesis project proposal             20%

3. A final paper                                  50%

Week 1:

1. 馮爾康，《清史史料學初稿》（天津：南開大學出版社，1986）。
2. 嚴耕望，《治史三書（增訂版）》（上海：上海人民出版社，2016）：《治史經驗談》、《治史答問》、《錢穆賓四先生與我》。附錄：余英時，〈中國史學界的樸實棍模—敬悼嚴耕望學長〉（頁317-324）
3. 羅志田，《近代中國史學十論》（上海：復旦大學出版社，2003）。
4. 葛兆光，〈從學術書評到研究綜述——與博士生的一次討論〉，《杭州師範大學學報（社會科學版）》2012, 5(2012)：129-136。
5. 科大衛，《明清社會和禮儀》（北京：北京師範大學出版社，2016）〈後記〉，頁323-324。「歷史學者若不能從文獻看到田野，他或她只是一個抄襲的機器。從田野的角度讀文獻，文獻的內容是一層一層的，原來某句話經歷過解讀，又放了另一篇文獻之內，如此轉手多次，才到達歷史學者的視野。您有興趣知道的，是文獻的哪一層呢？」（頁323）
6. 劉志偉、孫歌，《在歷史中尋找中國—關於區域史研究認識論的對話》（香港：大家良友書局有限公司，2014）。「走向田野的歷史學」（頁130）
7. 王明珂，《反思史學與史學反思：文本與表徵分析》（台北：允晨文化公司，2015）。本書「說明如何透過文本、文類、歷史心性、社會表徵（表相）、社會現實（本相）等概念而在文獻中作田野，也由此揭露隱藏在文獻中的另一些歷史景象」（頁19）
8. 余英時，〈一生為故國招魂：敬悼錢賓四師〉，氏著《猶記風追水上鱗》（台北：三民書局，1991），頁17-29。
9. 溝口雄三，〈日本人為何研究中國？〉，《新史學》（台北） 1, 2(1990)：85-100。
10. 張廣達，〈內藤湖南的「唐宋變革說」及其影響〉，收入榮新江主編，《唐研究》第11卷（北京：北京大學出版社，2005），頁5-71。
11. 陳建守主編，戴麗娟、謝柏暉等譯，《史家的誕生：探訪西方史學殿堂的十扇窗》（台北：時英出版社，2008）。
12. 陳建守主編，林俊宏等合譯，《時代的先行者：改變歷史觀念的十種視野》（台北：獨立作者出版公司，2014）。（十位學者「走在時代的前端，藉由各自的學術專業，影響當代史觀，也改變了我們對於歷史乃至當下世界的認知：勞倫斯‧史東（Lawrence Stone）復興了敘事傳統，賦予歷史書寫穿梭時空的魅力；卡爾‧休斯克（Carl E. Schorske）以獨特的歷史之眼，洞悉藝術文化如何體現出時代脈動；保羅‧奧斯卡‧克里斯特勒（Paul Oskar Kristeller）重新探問「人文主義」的精神與定義，奠定文藝復興的研究基石；娜塔莉‧澤蒙‧戴維斯（Natalie Zemon Davis）結合史料與電影，訴說一則則過往被忽略的邊緣人的故事；克利弗德‧紀爾茲（Clifford Geertz）透過人類學的「深描」手法，開創文化詮釋之路；彼得‧布朗（Peter Brown）專注追尋基督正統之外的異教聖徒；彼得‧蓋伊（Peter Gay）將佛洛伊德的心理分析帶入史學研究，重塑布爾喬亞的面貌；葛爾達‧勒納（Gerda Lerner）一生為婦女喉舌，並身體力行地將婦女帶入歷史研究的殿堂；喬伊斯‧艾波比（Joyce Appleby）早在數十年前便意識到歷史的建構性，不斷叩問歷史是否「真實」；社會學家查爾斯‧提利（Charles Tilly）不斷反思社會運動、革命與歷史進程的關聯。」）
13. Robert van Krieken, “Norbert Elias and Emotions in History,” in David Lemmings & Ann Brooks edited, Passion, Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2014). Also may reach the paper at Academia.edu.

Week 3:

1. 葉顯恩，《明清徽州農村社會與佃僕制》（合肥 : 安徽人民出版社，1983）。
2. Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History: the Development of Hui-chou Prefecture, 800 to 1800 (Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1989).
3. Joseph P. McDermott, The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600 (Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2014).

Week 4:

1. Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities (Volume X, Routledge/Thoemmes Press: New York)
2. Shane Ewen, What is Urban History? (Polity 2016)
3. Nicolas Kenny & Rebecca Madgin, Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History

Week 5：

1.  夏继果、Jerry Bentley，《全球史读本》，北京大学出版社2010年

Week 6：

1.  科大卫，明清社会和礼仪， 北京：北京师范大学出版社， 2016

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