建国初期 ,太平天国史研究曾很受重视 ,其研究成果几乎比近代史其他领域研究成果的总和还要多。“文革”后到 80年代中期 ,太平天国史研究虽没有 50、 60年代那么热 ,但研究的深度和广度都大大增强。近几年 ,太史研究显得冷寂。就这一现状 ,我走访了年过七旬的太平天国史研究专 In the early years of the founding of New China, the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had drawn great attention. Its research results were almost more than the sum of the research achievements in other fields in modern history. After the “Cultural Revolution” until the mid-1980s, although the study of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not as hot as the 1950s and 1960s, the depth and breadth of the research were greatly enhanced. In recent years, Taishi study seems cold silence. In this situation, I visited the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the past seventy years