中国社会史研究有着悠久的传统,且不说古代史书中有关风俗民情、社会生活的丰富记载,单就近代史学而言,梁启超在本世纪初就呼吁要研究“群学”,第一部社会史专著(张亮采著《中国风俗史》)也于1911年出版。从20年代初至40年代末,有影响的社会史著作不断问世。可惜的是,新中国成立后,由于“左”的思潮影响和当时的历史条件,社 In terms of modern history, Liang Qichao urged at the beginning of this century to study “group study”, the first part of society History monographs (Zhang Liang with “Chinese custom history”) also published in 1911. From the early 1920s to the late 1940s, influential books on social history came out continuously. Unfortunately, after the founding of New China, due to the influence of the “leftist” ideology and the historical conditions at that time,