This curriculum is a professional compulsory course for the undergraduate in the department of history. The time range of the teaching content is from the pre-Qin period to the first half of the 20th century. By taking this course, the students can have a basic understanding of the development process and rule of Chinese historiography, the representative historian and historiography achievement as well as its characteristics, the evolution course of historiography, the development thread of the historiography thought, and the relations between historiography and other fields of academic culture, etc. Thus, they will have an overall view on Chinese historiography.
History
历史学（History），简称史学、历史，是以历史为研究对象的学科。虽然在广义上历史可以包含人类以外的事物，但作为一门社会和人文科学，历史学主要以人类社会为研究对象。
