Wang Chuanshan(1619-1692)quested actively for the development law of Chinese history,wrote lots of historical works and made great achievements in Chinese historiography.Apart from referring to historical literature,he probed history to find what had caused the occurrence,development and change of historical events.He inherited partly Chinese historiography tradition,but more importantly,developed a new historiography,which played somewhat the role of transition.However,he still took the viewpoint of destiny and held the theory that everything was controlled by God,...