Interdisciplinary Potential of Oral History and New Ways of Developing Historical Knowledge
- Authors:
- Chzhen'din Chzhou, Xu Jin
- Work direction:
- Устная история: методологические поиски и новые методы исследований
- Abstract:
- In recent years, there has been a boom in the study of history using oral narratives in both Chinese and foreign historiography. Oral history, as a form of historical research, has played a unique role in promoting the popularization of historical knowledge among the public, and in the late 1970s Chinese historians began to study oral history. Over the next three decades, the study of oral history has expanded and deepened, and it has developed into a branch of the historical discipline. History is a discipline with a long tradition, and one that is constantly being updated as human society evolves. Each era has its own historiography, and each era has a different style and philosophy from its predecessors. Modern oral history, as a new form of historiography, inherits traditional historiography, but has developed its own unique characteristics in terms of research philosophy and methodology, and its most distinctive feature is its breakthrough and expansion of traditional historiography in many ways. This is mainly manifested in the extending of the object of research in oral history, the significant increase in the content of research, and the move from a single means of research to multiple forms of research.
- Keywords:
- oral history, sociological research, Traditional historiography, Methodological searches
Interdisciplinary Potential of Oral History and New Ways of Developing Historical Knowledge