台灣地區的中國近現代史研究：以學術期刊與博士論文為分析對象（1945-2000）

Abstract

Although it has been widely acknowledged that quite a high percentage of historical works in Taiwan contributed to the field of modern Chinese history, such understanding remains impressionistic. This paper gives a quantitative analysis in how such academic trend has emerged and changed over the years. The authors examines eight major historical journals, M.A. theses, and dissertations finished between 1945 and 2000 to see how the research trend has shifted during this period. The paper will, on the one hand, concentrate on describing the phenomenon in the field. It will also, on the other, analyze the distribution of works in each sub–field, e.g., econcmic history, political history, social history, etc. to compare with Works in Chinese history as a whole. The period between 1945 and 2000 can be divided into five time span s. In each of the five studies of modern Chinese history possesses the highest percentage among works in Chinese history. Moreover, there are more theses and dissertations than journal papers contributed to this field. By the fifth time span, however, the percentage of theses and dissertations contributed to modern Chinese history is close to that of journal papers. Of 627 theses and dissertations in this field 27.4% works on political and military history, 16.3% intellectual and cultural history, 15.6% international relationship, 14.5% social history, 13.2% economic history, 4.5% educational history, and less than 3% unidentifiable. The lowest percentage among the field are: institutional history (0.3%), history of science (0.5%), history of books (0.5%), art history (1.0%), historiography (1.9%). Of 1,010 journal papers on modern Chinese history, intellectual and cultural history possesses 30.8% of works, political and military history 28.2%, historiography 10.0%, international relationship 8.7%, economic history 8.7%, and social history 5.9%, unidentifiable less than 3.0%. The lowest percentage in the field are: history of women 0.5%, art history 0.6%, history of science (0.6%), history of books (0.6%), history of religion 1.3%.