10多年前,当中国历史学从“影射史学”的恶梦中缓醒过来时,全社会对过去一段时期肆意践踏历史真的做法深恶痛绝,渴望客观的真实的历史。“还历史以本来面目”,成为70年代末以来史学研究的一个基本出发点,这种基于中国史学“秉笔直书”传统,加上“五四”以来西学东渐过程中“唯科学主义”的深刻影响而形成的关于历史客观性的信念,虽然不同于西方19世纪经验主义史学对历史事实的崇拜,其学术背景亦有异于西方以“新经济史”学派 More than 10 years ago, when Chinese historiography had awakened from the nightmare of “Historical Photography”, the whole society hated the true practice of wantonly trampling history in the past period and longs for the objective and true history. “History is still the same” has become a basic starting point for the study of history since the late 1970s. Based on the tradition of “keeping straight books” in Chinese historiography and “scientistism” in the course of western learning since the May 4th Movement Profoundly influenced and formed on the objective objectivity of the belief, although different from Western 19th century empirical history of worship of historical facts, its academic background is also different from the West to “New Economic History” School