我今天想要讨论的主题是口述史学。我是《口述史评论》的编辑,它在美国是口述史学领域的主要刊物。当我写《中国的难题》(The Chinese Puzzle)这篇文章时我认为:在中国,口述史就像“中国的难题”一样,难以寻找到所有的部分。我曾经对有组织的口述史学运动做过一定的考察。中国的口述史学强调几个主题如:领导者、妇女史、地方和城市史。这些题目是口述史学最先开始应用的地方。 The topic I want to discuss today is oral history. I am an editor of the Oral History Review, a major publication in the field of oral history in the United States. When I wrote “The Chinese Puzzle” this article, I think: In China, oral history is like “China’s problems”, it is difficult to find all the parts. I once did some research on organized oral history movement. Oral history in China emphasizes several topics such as: leaders, women’s history, local and urban history. These topics are the first oral history began to apply.