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Qian mu's Motive for writing 『Guoshidagang』

Qian mu was born in 1895 at the Jiangsu province, China. He was a famous historian in China after he wrote 『Guoshidagang 』in 1939. The 『Guoshidagang 』 was a Chinese history book which written according to from ancient times to the 1930's. The 『Guoshidagang 』was covered a Giangmuti(a structure of the main points) that was a traditional description in China. When the 『Guoshidagang 』 published in 1940, many people were interested in this book. And since then this book became a best seller in historical science area. Also this book gas greatly influenced Chinese people, especially to Chinese young students until now. This paper researched mainly the motive of writing 『Guoshidagang 』. And in this paper I analyzed it's the motive from three different viewpoints. First of all, Qian mu thought Chinese need a new history book that had to include the whole Chinese history. But after the middle of 19th century in China many historians only concerned about short period history. They didn't studied the whole chinese history anymore. That is why he published this book. Second, Qian mu thought historical science had to take part in the reality. At the time many Chinese historians thought studying history was to knowthe past things simply. But Qian mu had a different recognition with them. He thought the proper study of history is for improving the real society. Third, Qian mu wanted to inspire patriotism into the hearts of Chinese people. The times of Qian mu China was beset with troubles both at home and abroad. Qian mu thought that Chinese people need to understand their own history. In other words, to understanding that knowledge would give them a patriotism. In conclusion, the 『Guoshidagang 』showed the importance of history to Chinese. This was that China in the 1930's and the 1940's demanded it and met the needs of the times. Also Qian mu's motive for writing Guoshidagang will give us one of the answers why do we study history.