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吴于廑先生在一九九○年出版的《中国大百科全书·外国历史卷》上发表了一篇题为“世界历史”的总论,这是我国八十年代世界历史学界的最新理论。这篇著作构思已久,至少有十多年。初稿在世界史学界曾经过多次讨论。吴先生的世界历史新理论在我国史学界引起了巨大反响。不少史学工作者正在沿着吴先生新开辟的航向,加深研究,编著世界历史。乍看起来,这篇著作也不过是时下流行的“例行的”“开卷”文章。实际上,它却具有不朽的史学理论价值。我国史学家历来隐没在时代兴衰的钻研工作,愈是博学多闻,愈是惜墨如金,惯于行文简洁,高度概括。鄙人唯恐后学难于领会,不惜画蛇添足,就这篇著作的史学理论、哲学思维、史笔风格作一点肤浅的解释。
In his book Encyclopedia of China, Foreign History, published in 1990, Mr. Wu Yu-kan published a general thesis entitled “World History,” the latest theory in the history of the world’s history in the 1980s. This book has been conceived for at least a dozen years. The first draft has been discussed many times in world history scholarship. Mr. Wu’s new world history theory has aroused great repercussions in the historians of our country. Many historians are following the newly-opened course of Mr. Wu to deepen their studies and compile world history. At first glance, this work is nothing more than a “routine” “unwinding” article nowadays. In fact, it has immortal historical value. Historians of our country have always hidden in the ebb and flow of the times. The more we learned erudite, the more we cherished the ink such as gold, accustomed to concise and highly summarized. I fear that after learning difficult to comprehend, spite of superfluous, on the history of this book theory, philosophical thinking, history pen style for a little superficial interpretation.