Manuel Perez-Garcia - Global History with Chinese Characteristics

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In 2000, Professor Slvi Sogner (19322017) wrote for the 19th International Congress of the Historical Sciences at Oslo:

Global history is increasingly becoming our common concern. The field is still in its infancy and the practitioners are relatively few. Historians have traditionally concentrated on national achievements and dug deep in archival depots to substantiate their findings. The hallmark of the historians craftfull command of the sources and methodological acumenmay seem at stake when confronting universal history. The twenty-first century differs considerably from the previous one. The historian must rise to the new challenges and address them.

Until the 2020s, we have so many global studies and global history studies ranging from various disciplines and topics to a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and ground archival works. Particularly, procedure of enlarging the field of global studies occurred mostly by absorbing different disciplines such as world sociology, political science, economic history, anthropology, religion, natural sciences, meteorology, maritime studies, health, disease, cultural studies, and history studies. However, as for disciplinary discussion on global study itself seems to be rather limited and confined within individual discipline. It is expected for historians to take first tentative initiatives to create a wholly new inter- and multi-disciplinary commission for global history, a meeting place for a budding discipline where researchers in letters and science could meet, exchange ideas, cultivate, and develop a new field under global studys perspectives, as Professor Sogner suggested.