Anthropocene has progressively evolved into a cutting-edge scientific discipline since the turn of the twenty-first century, as Wang Linran notes in his article on “Learning and Exploration” 12th issue. However, historiography, especially Chinese historiography, doesn’t have too much saying in this field, and there isn't much knowledge produced on the subject. Chinese historians' contribution in the study of Anthropocene can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the science of Anthropocene, as well as to the development of Chinese historiography.
At the ontological level, the relevance of the atmosphere, water, organisms, rocks, and other layers of the Earth closely related to Anthropocene to the course of China’s history suggests that the subject of our history is not homogeneous; at the epistemological level, under the conceptual framework of Anthropocene, there are complex interactions and feedbacks between human activities and the Earth system, which are centered on the course of China’s present and contemporary history; and at the methodological level, Anthropocene, as a new signpost, will guide the discipline of Chinese history in strengthening its collaboration with natural sciences such as earth system science, as well as providing theoretical and methodological enlightenment to Chinese historiography.