二十世纪中国历史地理学的成就

传统观念把舆地之学仅视为史学的附庸，然自二十世纪三十年代后脱胎于舆地之举的历史地理学茁壮成长，五六十年代以后迅速发展成历史学中的一门显学，学科理论逐渐莉到完善，学科基本建设初步完成，历史人地理研究方兴未艾，高质量的论层出不穷，在历史政区，疆域，产业，人口，城市，军事，交通，社会化，古代地理学家与地理献等领域均有所突破；同时居历史自然地理研究方面也是成就喜人，历史时期的环境变迁研究日益兴旺，这一切均昭示着该学科美好的发展前景。

Achievements of Chinese Historical Geography in the 20th Century

Viewed from a traditional Chinese opinion, the Yu-Di-Xue was only an attachment of history. Emerging from its womb, historical geography of China has been growing up sturdily since 1930' s and has become a very important branch of history and geography since 1950 s and 1960 s.The historical geographical theory has become more and more perfect. Many works and essays of this subject were published . The great progress has been made in the area of historical physical geography, and meanwhile, historical human geography has been developing quickly since the end of 1970 s. During the last twenty years there have been a lot of academic breakthroughs within fields of historical administrative division, historical territory, historical industry geography, historical population geopgaphy, historical urban geography, historical military geography,historical communication geography,historical social and cultural geography , ancient geographers and geographical documents, historical environmental changes, etc.All of them have made it clear that there will be a bright future of this subject.