与西方历史学不断趋新相比,中国历史学可能略显沉闷。在西方,传统政治史早已冷寂,一度流行的经济史和社会史亦遭到更后起的“新文化史”之挑战。相对而言,在中国史学研究中居于首席的仍是政治史。这也难怪,在中国历史长河中,政治史的资源实在太富饶。姑且不论那汗牛充栋的史料, Compared with the continuous improvement of western historiography, Chinese history may be slightly boring. In the West, the traditional political history has long been cold and quiet, and the once popular economic and social history has also been challenged by the more “new cultural history”. In contrast, living in the study of Chinese historiography is still political history. It’s no wonder that in the long history of China, the resources for political history are so rich. Regardless of that historical data,