"Senior sister, what are you going to write?"

"I'm good at sociology and fieldwork, but the topics I prepared before are too niche, and I don't think it's easy to excel, what advice do you have?"

In terms of academic research, Weng Xiupin has only one word for Chen Kan - convinc, otherwise she would not have traveled "thousands of miles" from Jinling to Zhonghai to talk to Chen Kan about this, because Chen Kan's academic level is indeed amazing.

Weng Xiupin has basically no problem entering the venue, even if it is for the sake of her supervisor's face, she will be allowed to enter, the so-called submission of a paper to the office, in fact, does not all depend on the level of your paper.

If you have a great teacher, even if you write an article casually, it is easy to get in, and the real difficulty is to read your paper on stage, which is the real test of skill.

Because there are too many people attending the conference, basically everyone who can come in has an academic background, and there is no meaning in comparing the background, and there are only a dozen or so people who read the papers, deducting some old men, and the number of young scholars is very small, which really depends on the level.

It's so difficult to get on stage, so you have to give these young scholars a chance, otherwise everyone won't come in the future, and the organizers of the conference are also very smart, since there are not many opportunities to go on stage, then create an opportunity for you to show yourself.

This is the legendary "collection of papers", which prints some excellent papers submitted into a book, and the number of papers that can be published is also limited, artificially creating an honor.

Although Chen Kan has no interest in either of these, not every scholar is a "master of the world" like Chen Kan.

"Either innovate in methods or in the application of theories, but I don't think there is much hope for my sister to write about sociology." Chen Kan told the truth.

We often say that there are many behaviors in the film industry that follow the trend and make money, and when they see that a theme is profitable, they rush into it.

In fact, not only the film industry, every industry is the same, it will "rub the heat", and history is no exception, but history is not to make money, history is to earn fame, in order to produce better results, in order to rub the heat, this has existed since ancient times.

Not to mention too early, just before and after the New Culture Movement, historians were basically criticizing Chinese history, and historians at that time often wrote general histories, from the pre-Qin to the Qing Dynasty, almost all of them were scolded, and they were praised for the West.

When the Japanese invaded China, many historians were reflecting on Chinese history and what happened to China, an ancient civilization, and began to treat Chinese culture and history more rationally at this time.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, the proletariat overturned the case for the peasant uprising, criticized the feudal dynasty, and even made a "five golden flowers" at that time.

Later, with the rise of science, history immediately became popular, and a course called "quantitative historiography" emerged, which used a lot of data and mathematical models to do history.

In the eighties and nineties, there was a wave of overturning the case, and many historians poured into it, as long as he was a historical figure, he could overturn the case, he was originally a national hero, but in that era, he could have become a national sinner, and he was originally a great traitor, but at that time he was "wronged", and then he overturned the case again.

In the new century, Western methods of sociology and field investigation have entered the field of historiography, and a large number of scholars have used sociology and field investigation to do history.

On the whole, it shows an irrational state, not to see what he is suitable for, but to see what is hotter now, and then get into it, Weng Xiupin is one of them.

Of course, you can't say that such a method is wrong, after all, people's instinct is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and it is easier to achieve results by obeying the general trend, and the cost of insisting on oneself is very great.

But everything in this world is too much, isn't this a problem, although Weng Xiupin's skills in using sociology and field research to do history are not bad, but this method is too common, there is nothing new, and it is even more difficult to be brilliant with her strength.

That's why she came to Chen Kan, hoping that Chen Kan could give her some advice.

"I suggest that you dig deep and dig deeper into a topic, if the depth is enough, I think there is still a great possibility." 陈康 says:

"However, as your junior brother, I suggest that you better change your research direction, change your research method, and delve into a field."

"Alas, how can this be so easy!" Weng Xiupin sighed.

"It's not easy, it's always hard to take the first step, but senior sister, if you still have academic ambitions, I think it would be a better choice for you to change directions." Chen Kan said.

As the name suggests, the research method of field investigation is to go down to the local area to do field research, and if it is done together with sociology, the location of the investigation is basically some remote rural areas, which is very hard and long.

In the field of social and cultural studies, American historians have done the best, even in the study of Chinese social culture, many American scholars have done better than the Chinese, why? How come foreigners know China better than Chinese?

Because American historians are willing to spend time, there are American scholars who have lived there for 13 years in order to study the folk customs and customs of the Three Gorges area.

And Chinese scholars, although you are a Chinese, but these "high and high, do not eat grain" scholars really understand everything about this countryside? Not necessarily.

And now that Weng Xiupin has a child, it is impossible for her to conduct research outside for a long time, so she is destined to be difficult to continue on this road, so Chen Kancai suggested that she change her research direction.

"Alas......" Weng Xiu let out a long sigh, she also understood, but it was really difficult.

"What are you going to write, say it to me, let me learn from it."

"I, I'm going to write about Cixi, I thought this old woman was quite funny, so I'm going to write about this woman."

"Cixi, what stage are you going to write?"

"The Boxer Rebellion during that time."

Chen Kan had a fight with the Boxers in the first plane "Huo Yuanjia", although there was little contact, but since that time Chen Kan has become interested in the Boxers, and then this interest has shifted to Cixi, the old woman, using his spare time, Chen Kan checked some materials, and Chen Kan found that some things in this old woman are actually quite funny.