本課程旨在讓學員認識二十世紀以來歷史學科的建立與發展及其所面對的挑戰。課程內容包括了史學典範的建立與轉移、史學書寫方式與風格的變化、史學理論的多元趨向，以及科際整合的影響等課題，學員可以從而把握近現代歷史學發展的脈絡，並反思歷史學科在當今社會中的功能與意義。本課程並有專題介紹二十世紀中外學界對於中國史研究的發展，學員可藉此進一步思考二十一世紀中國史學研究的動向。

第一講　導論：史學、史家與時代

第二講　歷史（知識）的生產與製作

第三講　歷史作為一門學科

第四講　現代歷史研究的書寫與規範

第五講　總體史的追求──馬克思主義史學與年鑑學派

第六講    社會史取向的變遷

第七講　文化史的新路向

第八講　從國別史到全球史

第九講　二十世紀中國的史學革命（一）

第十講　二十世紀中國的史學革命（二）

第十一講　海外中國史研究的典範轉移（一）

第十二講　海外中國史研究的典範轉移（二）

第十三講　史學反思      

• 書評報告60%

學員根據本課程開列的閱讀報告書單，選取一本書（或多於一本進行比較），配合課程內容的相關課題，撰成一篇約4000字的書評報告。

• 課堂參與10%

• 導修小組報告、評論及討論表現30%

（每名學員均需準時出席導修，以小組形式進行一次專責報告，並繳交一份1500-2000字的書面報告。各小組並需要進行一次專責評論，其餘堂次可在旁聽時參與討論。）

書評報告書目

學員從以下書目選取一本專著（如進行比較，可選取多於一本），撰寫約4000字的書評報告。

在書評報告中，可以說明以下內容：

• 所閱之書的主要論題、其所提出之問題，以及所採用的理論框架（如適用）
• 該書的主要內容、結構，及其特色
• 該書的研究視角和方法
• 該書所採用的史料及其處理方法有何特別之處
• 該書在學術研究上之貢獻及其影響（例如：有否引起學界以至公眾的討論／爭議；如有的話，應介紹討論／爭議的內容）
• 對於部分專著，更可考慮其作者之研究課題與其所身處的時代背景，以及學術潮流之關係。

世界史視野

Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.  

Brook, Timothy. Mr. Selden’s Map of China – Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. / Mr. Selden’s Map of China – The Spice Trade, A Lost Chart, and The South China Sea. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2014.

Colley, Linda. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. New York: Pantheon, 2007.

Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Hanser, Jessica. Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Malcolm, Noel. Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Morris, Ian. Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future. London: Profile Books, 2011.

環境與人

Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Lander, Brian. The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

McNeill, J. R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Mostern, Ruth. The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Rogaski, Ruth. Knowing Manchuria Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2022.

社會、文化與生活史

Ekirch, A. Roger. At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Hunter, Michael. The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Kesselring, K.J. Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Laudan, Rachel. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Lees, Lynn Hollen. Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Moore, Lindsay R. Women before the court: Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.

Smith, Mark. Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

van Houts, Elisabeth. Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Wishnitzer, Avner. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

製造歷史記憶

Bell, David. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2003

Cohen, Paul A. Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. Oakland: University of California Press, 2010.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Hershatter, Gail. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Müller, Frank Lorenz. Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Vu, Linh D. Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Wert, Michael. Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.

Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

史學發展的動態

Bailyn, Bernard. Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Black, Jeremy. War and the Cultural Turn. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012.

Boldizzoni, Francesco. The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Chakrabarty, Dipseh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

De Groot, Jerome. Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2009.

Eley, Geodd. A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hughes-Warrington, Marnie. History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film. London: Routledge, 2007.

Hunt, Lynn. Writing History in the Global Era. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.

Nash, Gary B., Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn. History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. New York: Vintage, 2000.

Townsend, Robert. History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Tyrrell, Ian. Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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