Abstract: Liang Qichao’s“autobiography”is basically a continuation of past historians’understanding:“autobiography”mainly refers to the“preface-styled autobiography”. Although he didn’t break through the limitation the traditional understanding，Liang tried to make a breakthrough in theory and writing practice. In his practice，separating the“autobiography”from the“preface”，Liang tried to reform the traditional“historians’ preface- styled autobiography”，and created a new form of“autobiography”- “ ×× ’s autobiographic note”，which is not only different from“the historians’preface- styled autobiography”represented by Sima Qian’s Taishigong’s Preface，but also different from“the lyrical autobiography”represented by Tao Yuanming’s Stories of Five-willow Gentleman. The biggest characteristic of the“ ××’s autobiographic note”is that it can stand alone and yet retains the content and characteristics of“self-account of one’s life”in the traditional“historians’preface-styled autobiography”. In addition，in theory Liang Qichao found a new biographic style - the autobiographical chronicle，which is most similar to the Western autobiography and predicts the future development of the Chinese autobiography: from“autobiography”to“autobiographical Chronicle”

Key words: Liang Qichao, My Self- account at the Age of Thirty, autobiography, author’s preface, autobiographical Chronicle, autobiography literature