今天,几乎没有人会否认“在大城市史的研究中,在描述城市社区及其社会各阶层的日常生活中,口述资料都成了历史学家的好帮手”①。以上海为例。本世纪初,上海社会科学院在开展“上海移民史”调研时,为4000多户普通民众进行了口述访谈。内容包括:迁移上海的时间、路线、原因、交 Few today people will deny that “in the study of the history of metropolitan cities, oral information is a good helper for historians in describing the daily life of urban communities and all segments of their society.” Take Shanghai as an example. At the beginning of this century, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences carried out oral interviews with more than 4,000 ordinary people when carrying out a survey on the history of Shanghai immigration. Contents include: relocation of Shanghai time, route, reason, pay