TITLE:
Historical Materialism and Liu Dunzhen’s Ancient Chinese Architecture History
AUTHORS:
Wei Li, Lanlan Lai
KEYWORDS:
Liu Dunzhen, Ancient Chinese Architecture History, Historical Materialism, Ideology, Text Study
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.6 No.4,
December
25,
2017
ABSTRACT: 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.