Kuo Ting-yee, not only a nationally renowned professor of modern Chinese history, but also paid close attention to the development of contemporary Chinese pre-history historiography continuously, edited a class-note style manuscript called Chinese General History in the late 1940s. The first two parts of the Chinese General History, "The Prehistory period" and "The Expansion of Ancient History" that describe the pre-history Chinese civilization era constitute the main subjects I will discuss in this article. From the late Ch'ing to early Republican periods, the discovery of the historical value of non-Confucian pre-Ch'in texts and their historical implications, as well as the challenges posed through Ku Chieh-kang's suspicion toward the records of Chinese antiquity renewed from that time onward the intellectual concepts of the development of Chinese historiography. Under such current, the originals of Chinese civilization and the royal lineage of San-tai were drastically reformed in many historical textbooks in 1920-40s. Kuo's Chinese General History reflected in part of the concepts of this new paradigm of modern Chinese historiography. During the same period of time, the nationalism historiography and the archeology achievements of Anyang directed by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica diverged the development of contemporary Chinese historiography into two directions. In the Chinese General History, we can see that Kuo fully understood the philological research of oracles bones discovered at Yin-hsu sites played the key role to realizing the history of Shang Dynasty. On the other hand, Kuo also inclined another way with the idea of nationalism historiography to construct the outline of early Chinese civilization years.