我个人有一个体悟,就是对于我们这一代从“文革”中走来的人来说,离开“文革”就没办法理解我们这一代人的人生与学术。如果我这个年龄的人写自述或者写回忆录,我想每个人的第一章恐怕都是“文革”。“文革”在我们的经历当中,打下的烙印太深,以致绝大多数人的人生道路和学术选择,都直接以这一背景为起点。另外,我经常强调一个问题:一代人本身有怎样的历史,决定了他们研究什么样的历史,因此在研究中要把学术史还原为社会史。也就是说,我们在理解学术史的时候,如果仅仅局限于学术自身,不把学术史还原为社会史,或者不从社会史的角度去探 I personally have an understanding that for those of us who have come from the “Cultural Revolution” for generations to come, there is no way to understand the life and academic aspects of our generation unless they leave the “Cultural Revolution.” If people of my age write memoirs or write memoirs, I think everybody’s first chapter may be “Cultural Revolution.” In the course of our experience, the “Cultural Revolution” laid a mark so deeply that most people’s life paths and academic choices directly start from this background. In addition, I often emphasize one question: what kind of history does a generation have and what kind of history they study? Therefore, in the study, academic history should be reduced to social history. In other words, when we understand the academic history, if we are limited to the academic itself, we will not restore the academic history to the social history, nor shall we explore it from the perspective of social history