Abstract：Great progress has been made in the research and education of human geography in mainland China. With the rapid development of human geography in the world and the further advance of reform in other spheres in China, some methodological problems in the research of human geography emerged, including the lack or absence of five kinds of academic consciousness (problem consciousness, academic historical consciousness, dialogue consciousness, theoretical consciousness and consciousness of academic norms). Such a situation hinders the development of human geography in China. The reason why there is lack of problem consciousness of human geography researches in mainland China is that there are many papers which are not problem-oriented. The lack is due to the poor postgraduate education, the wrong academic evaluation system and the tradition of the absence of discuss on problems existing in the society and academia. Many Chinese human geography papers cite limited literatures although great progress has been made in the last three decades. This indicates that many human geographers in China lack of the academic historical consciousness and dialogue consciousness, because they just state their own opinions and findings, and pay little attention to the researches of others, and they cannot make a strong academic base of the consulting service. Besides the above substantial academic issues, there are still some formal issues in the academic writings by Chinese human geographers, compared with the national standard or the Anglo-American counterparts. China needs its own ‘Chicago Manual of Style’. In order to take part in the world competition of academy, economic development and institution, it is necessary for China to strengthen the consciousness of academic history, dialogue, theory problems and academic norms to make the researches being problem-oriented and theory-oriented, and have enough local bases as well as have original findings.
汤茂林. 我国人文地理学研究的若干基本意识问题[J]. 人文地理, 2010, 25(4): 1-6.
TANG Mao-lin. THE METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY RESEARCHES IN MAINLAND CHINA. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2010, 25(4): 1-6.
