In the view of the common idea that “history is the event that actually happened in the past”, the paper discusses the original meanings of history—to pursue the truth and apply in practice—as well as its basic concept, principles and methods, making careful comparisons and analysis between postmodernist history and history in its original meaning in four dimensions, and argues that the objects, emphasis, concept and methods of postmodernist history are quite different from those of history in its original meaning. The biggest problem lies in that the object of the historical research, namely, the objective “event”, is “absent” in the studies of postmodernist history and replaced by the “facts” which are no more than a “linguistic existence” or “verbal artifact”. Thus postmodernist history has the strong tendency towards nonhistorization and is far from history in its original meaning.

history； postmodernist history; historical fact; historical evnent; text; “history as literature”; “nonhistorization” of history