Abstract: Due to the influence of Western academic division since the late Qing Dynasty，geography，which had long been attached to history in traditional academic category，started to separate and became independent. It was a consensus of the time that history and geography should be separate. However，many departments，societies，and journals still bound the two together. The reason the academic journals combined the two was that the government required teachers’colleges to set up departments of history and geography，following the model of the modern Japanese educational system. The phenomenon was also directly related to the traditional understanding of the relationship between history and geography in the old academic category. In addition，Some realistic factors such as the unsatisfactory historical and geographical education were also the cause. Even so，history as a modern independent discipline was established in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although for some special reasons in the 1930s and the 1940s many departments，societies，and journals had history and geography together once again，the position of history as an independent discipline remained unshaken.

Key words: combination of history and geography, historical and geographical journals, history, geography, education ordinance, academic division