中国儿童文学的蓬勃发展已有百余年历史。然而，专门性儿童文学史论专著在成人文学界高呼“重写文学史”的20世纪80年代方才崭露头角。进入21世纪后，中国儿童文学以渐趋系统性的撰史模式呈现出更为多元化的书写特征。日臻繁荣的儿童文学迫切要求宏观把握既往的史论研究状貌，以期在整体层面推动史论建构乃至整个儿童文学学科的发展。但是，在浩如烟海的中国儿童文学史论研究中，学界能够总览全局的成果并不多见，学人常常不能直接把握中国儿童文学史的总体面貌。并且，与现当代文学相比，中国儿童文学史论研究尚存诸多局限。鉴于此，结合数据库研究与量化分析法的理性意识，力图对中国儿童文学史论（包括专著、期刊论文、学位论文等）的学术生态一网打尽。从历时演进、史料类属、史观作用等角度入手，点面结合地辨析儿童文学史料批评的现状、问题与方法，为少有学人涉足的中国儿童文学史论研究构建新型范式，并为拓展儿童文学研究的学术空间提供新的可能。

首先，介绍基于跨学科方法与可视化原理的数据库构建法则。以“中国国家版本馆数据库”‌“中国知网数据库”为切入点，整合‌“中国国家图书馆数据库”‌“北京师范大学图书馆数据库”‌“英国爱丁堡大学图书馆数据库”‌“中国优秀硕士学位论文全文数据库”等资源，建立迄今为止信息最为全面的中国儿童文学、现当代文学史论研究数据库。解析从近万条数据中归纳中国儿童文学史论研究流变特征的逻辑，为全文奠定方法论基础。

进而，就中国儿童文学史论研究的“现状”展开纵向与横向的审视。先从纵向视角出发，把儿童文学史论置于晚清民初至20世纪70年代、20世纪80年代、20世纪90年代、21世纪的特定时空中加以考察。对出版周期、出版数量、章节标识及撰史模式等方面展开数据分析，力求结合不同历史情境梳理儿童文学史写作样态的成因，捕捉各时期最具代表性的史论特征与价值旨归，形成一条清晰的演化脉络。再从横向视角剖析“以时间为中心”“以地域为中心”“以文类为中心”“以作家、作品为中心”“研究之研究”五类史料编排范式，从个案到整体，观照中国儿童文学史论编排的类属与效用。

最后，探究中国儿童文学史论在上述写作模式下亟待解决的“问题”、值得采用的“方法”，并展望其未来的发展构想。在开拓破旧立新的系统化知识谱系，深化对多元创作语境得失的认知，应对同质化、平面化的写作症候，突破“派生权威”的史料叙述困局，探索叙事话语之空白的潜在功用等发展构想下，学界应考察深化中国儿童文学史论研究方法的路径，通过革新撰史的观念、标准、方法、体例与格局来填补理论视野空白。进而，以具有深度与厚度的研究，助推新型中国儿童文学史论写作范式的建设与中国儿童文学史论的学科化建构。

Chinese Children’s Literature has been flourishing for more than a hundred years. However, specialised works on the historical research of Chinese Children’s Literature only came into prominence in the 1980s, when the adult literary field called for “rewriting the history of Chinese Literature”. After entering the 21st Century, Chinese Children’s Literature has shown more diversified writing characteristics with an increasingly systematic mode of history writing. The growing prosperity of Children’s Literature urgently requires a macro grasp of past historical research, intending to promote the construction of historical theories and even the development of the entire discipline of Children’s Literature. However, in the vast amount of research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature, few results can give an overview of the whole situation, with scholars failing to grasp the overall picture of the history of Chinese Children’s Literature directly. Moreover, compared with Modern and Contemporary Literature, research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature still has many limitations. In view of this, through database research and quantitative analysis, this paper seeks to comprehensively analyze previous research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature ( including monographs, journal articles, dissertations, etc.). From the perspectives of diachronic evolution, the categories of historical materials and the role of historical viewpoints, this paper analyses the current situation, problems, and methods of historical criticism of Children’s Literature in a comprehensive manner. It aims to build a new paradigm for research on the history theories of Chinese Children’s Literature, which has received limited scholary attention in the past, and to provide new possibilities for expanding the academic space of Children’s Literature research.

Firstly, the rules of database construction based on interdisciplinary approach and visualization principles are introduced. Taking the “China National Archives of Publications and Culture Database” and “CNKI Database” as the entry point, integrating the resources from “National Library of China Database”, “Beijing Normal University Library Database”, “The University of Edinburgh Database”, “China Master’s Theses Full-text Database” and so on. This paper tries to establish the most comprehensive research database on Chinese Children's Literature and Modern and Contemporary Literature history and thesis so far. And this paper analyzes the logic of the characteristics of the flow of Chinese Children's Literature historical research summarized from nearly 10,000 pieces of data, which lays the methodological foundation for the whole text.

Then, the current situation on the research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature is examined chronologically and synchronically. Firstly, from the chronological perspective, this paper examines the research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature in the specific period between the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods and the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 21st Century. This paper conducts analysis on the publication cycle, number of publications, chapter identification and history writing mode, in order to sort out the causes of the writing style of Children’s Literature in different historical situations, and capture the most representative features and values of history in each period, with a clear evolutionary vein finally formed. Then, from a synchronical perspective, this paper analyses the “time-centred”, “region-centred”, “genre-centred”, “writer- and work-centred”, “research on research”, and examines the categories and utility of the arrangement of research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature from individual cases to the whole.

Finally, it explores the problems that need to be solved and the methods that are worth adopting under the above writing mode, looking forward to the concept of its future development. In the development of a systematic knowledge system that breaks new ground, deepening understanding of the gains and losses in diverse creative contexts, addressing homogenization and flatness in writing, breaking through the dilemma of "derived authority" in historical narration, and exploring the potential functions of narrative discourse on blank spaces and so on, this paper examines the paths of deepening the methodology of research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature, and fill in the theoretical gap by innovating the concepts, standards, methods, styles, and patterns of history writing. In this way, research with depth and thickness can contribute to the construction of a new writing paradigm and the disciplinary construction of research on the history of Chinese Children’s Literature.