杨联陞是海外汉学的重要代表,在中国文化尤其是中国史研究领域作出了许多开创性贡献。基于所受到的严格的学术训练,杨联陞之史学研究始终有明确的方法论意识。他承认社会科学的融入有助于中国历史研究的展开,故自觉于“实证主义”知识论以追求“历史的客观性”。他的研究多是以“训诂考证”的“微观”和社会科学的“宏观”相互阐发,从而在诸多相关领域进行了开创性研究。在杨联陞看来,对中国社会关系具有广泛影响的“报”有三方面的特征:家族主义、现世的理性主义与道德的分殊主义。杨联陞认为,在朝代的兴亡更迭中,存在一个“周而复始”的“朝代循环”模式。 Yang Lian-sheng is an important representative of overseas Sinology and has made many pioneering contributions in the field of Chinese culture, especially Chinese history. Based on the rigorous academic training, Yang Lian-sheng’s historiography always has a clear methodological awareness. He admitted that the integration of social sciences will help to unravel the study of Chinese history and therefore consciously pursue “the objectivity of history” in the epistemology of “positivism”. Most of his researches are based on the mutual explanation of “micro ” of “research ” and “macroscopic ” of social science, so as to conduct seminal research in many related fields. According to Yang Lian-sheng, “newspapers”, which have a wide-ranging impact on China’s social relations, have three characteristics: familism, secular rationalism and moral distinction. Yang Lian-sheng argues that there is a “cycle of ” cycle “pattern ” in the dynastic rise and fall.