"The Turning Point of History: The Trend and Reflection of Modern Historiography" Author: Huang Jinxing / Publisher: Yunchen Culture

Regardless of whether the theme of this collection is a broad one or a special topic, it is nothing more than the author's reflection on the changes in the academic style of history between the two centuries (the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and the late 20th century to the early 21st century); there are both destruction and establishment. This naturally involves the story of the separation and combination of history and other disciplines. The thirteen articles selected in this book are all reflections on the development trend of Western historiography in recent years. I hope they can be of some reference or even help the development of Chinese historiography. In short, the 19th century was the golden age of Western historiography. Historical research achieved groundbreaking progress. Famous scholars headed by Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) emerged and dominated the Western academic world. In 1902, German historian Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) was awarded the Nobel Prize for his masterpiece on Roman history. However, ironically, the prestige of history has fallen from its peak since then, and it is difficult to reverse the decline. The reason is nothing more than the rise of new social sciences at the turn of the century; history, once the "Queen of Knowledge", has suddenly become the target of public criticism and has been challenged. However, history has been unable to cope with it, and has suffered setbacks and has often lost territory and paid compensation. In fact, history as a professional knowledge has been ridiculed as useless. However, human activities are originally the product of time. Without history as a guide for individual or group memory, people are inevitably confused and at a loss. Perhaps so, the development of historiography in the late 20th century unexpectedly took a sharp turn and underwent a huge change; the humanities and social sciences, which had lost their time perspective, finally realized the importance of historical consciousness and underwent a significant transformation, entering a period of "rediscovering history" in the humanities and social sciences and a period of clamorous historical research. I have sorted out this change in an article "The Turning Point of History - The Resurgence of Historical Consciousness in the Humanities in the Late 20th Century" for reference by the academic community. ——Huang Jinxing

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