Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips, Dunhuang studies, ancient philology, studies on endangered languages (dialects), studies on minority languages and history (Tibetan studies, Mongolian studies, Xixia studies, etc.). ), the study of characteristic regional culture, the collation and research of traditional documents and unearthed documents, etc. , all belong to the scope of unpopular research.
Purpose of establishment
The special research project of unpopular schools set up by the National Social Science Fund aims to strengthen the construction of discipline system, academic system and discourse system of philosophy and social sciences with China characteristics, develop unpopular schools and disciplines with important cultural value and inheritance significance, fund the research of unpopular schools with strategic, reserve and long-term significance for national development and civilization inheritance, ensure the research and inheritance of unpopular schools with great academic value and social significance, and focus on supporting unpopular schools with important significance for national development, civilization inheritance and cultural security.
However, at present, there is a lack of investment, talent and research, and rescue is urgently needed. In addition, it is inclined to frontier history, frontier and coastal defense history and other disciplines, paying attention to humanities-oriented research, and encouraging scholars to use new theories and methods to conduct interdisciplinary research according to academic interests and academic accumulation.