《历史是扩充心量之学》内容简介
各种形态的历史，都可能提供我们意想不到的资粮。古人每每希望在特定的事情上得到前史的启示，但除了期待历史帮助我们在特定事情上成功，同时也应强调，读史如何提升人们整体的心智能力——心量。
作者简介
王汎森，台湾大学历史系、历史研究所毕业，美国普林斯顿大学博士。2004年当选“中研院”院士，2005年获选英国皇家历史学会会士。曾任“中央研究院”历史语言所所长、“中央研究院”副院长、代理院长，现任台湾综合大学系统主席。专业领域是明清到近现代中国的思想史、文化史、学术史和史学史，近年来将研究触角延伸到所谓中国的“新传统时代”，包括宋代以下理学思想的政治意涵等问题。着有《章太炎的思想》《古史辨运动的兴起》《傅斯年：中国近代历史与政治中的个体生命》《中国近代思想与学术的系谱》《晚明清初思想十论》《权力的毛细管作用：清代的思想、学术与心态》《执拗的低音：一些历史思考方式的反思》《思想是生活的一种方式：中国近代思想史的再思考》等书。
History is the study of expanding the mind
History, in all its forms, can provide us with unexpected resources. The ancients always hoped to be inspired by the previous history in certain things, but in addition to expecting history to help us succeed in certain things, it should also be emphasized that reading history can improve people's overall mental capacity - the mind.
About the author
Wang Fansen is a graduate of the History Department and the Institute of History of Taiwan University. He received his PhD from Princeton University. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Research in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2005. He served as the director of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, vice president and acting president of Academia Sinica, and is currently the chairman of Taiwan Comprehensive University System. He specializes in intellectual history, cultural history, academic history and historiography of China from Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, and in recent years has extended his research to the so-called "new traditional era" of China, including the political implications of neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. He is the author of "The Thought of Zhang Taiyan", "The Rise of the Ancient History Debate", "Fu Silian: Individual Life in Modern Chinese History and Politics", "Genealogy of Modern Chinese Thought and Scholarship", "Ten Treatises on Thought in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties", "The Capillary Effect of Power: Thought, Scholarship and Mentality in the Qing Dynasty", "The Unyielding Bass: Reflections on Some Ways of Thinking about History", "Thought is a Way of Life". Rethinking the History of Modern Chinese Thought.
