The Theory of Cultural History Research in the Trend of History Ideology and Liang Qi-chao’s Study on the Cultural History

The new history ideological trend, which was initiated by American historian Robinson and German scholar Heinich Rickert, argues that the difference between the study of cultural history and the traditional history study lies in the aspect that the former expands the scope of the history study and takes all human questions into consideration. Therefore, the objectives of the cultural history study are the followings: the first, revealing the rule and value of the history by means of bstracting the reality from the individuals; the second, telling the differences of history study from the natural sciences in the aspects of historicity and individuality; the third, the scientization of the history study is actually the study of culture study. During the May 4th Movement, having accepted the new history ideological trend, Liang Qi-chao not only constructed the new theory system of history study in China in Chinese History Methodology and Amendment to It, but also made the partial study of Chinese cultural history in Bird’s-eye View of the 5,000-year History Study of China and Chinese Cultural History: Its Social Organization.