Historical Materialism and Liu Dunzhen’s Ancient Chinese Architecture History

摘要

After the founding of new China, Marxist Historical Materialism has achieved dominant position in China. Although it had been the dogmatism tendency of “simplification”, “formulation” and “politicization”, Chinese Historical Materialism research reached a new height and state in the 1950-1960s. Liu Dun-zhen’s works—Ancient Chinese Architecture History, which has been inoculation, mature and birth of in a turbulent of historical background, inevitably, the historical materialism and its core ideology have had a complex and profound influence on it. From the angle of text study, this article tries to show how deep the academic penetrability in Ancient Chinese Architecture History on the specific historical environment of that time and the great contribution of narrative paradigm and academic discourse system.