Review of Traditional Economic History Research Methods

摘要

For decades, this young discipline Economic History has experienced the difficult founding phase, and gradually has its flourished prospect. Although the political history of Ancient China is still slightly inferior compared with ideological or cultural history, China society seems to have encountered a "political history heat" or recently emerged "cultural history heat". Step by step, it advances, develops, and constructs characteristics of the self-Eden. There was also noisy view that some academic knowledge in this discipline was not essential, but actually the academic society should not forget any of the achievements made in this area. These important achievements have indeed gratified and satisfied assiduous scholars for these years. This paper reviews the traditional economic research method and presents key points to keep innovation in this field.