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This issue of "Oriental History Review" selects the assassination of Song Jiaoren in the early years of the Republic of China as its special topic, sorting out the details of the incident and the participation and observation comments of the main figures on the case at the time from multiple angles, recreating the complicated political struggles in the early Republic of China, and asking in-depth questions: Why did the handling of the Song case ultimately affect the direction of history, and ultimately lead to the failure of the republican attempt in the early Republic of China? The Song Dynasty case is undoubtedly the best entry point to search for the password of the failure of the century-old Republic and understand the operating mechanism and context of history at a major turning point. The "Image" column of this issue is "Group Portraits 20 Years After the Disintegration of the Soviet Union." On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the famous photographer Su Li interviewed 8 typical people from all walks of life to gain a glimpse of the impact and reshaping of this major historical event on individuals from their faces and thoughts.

The third volume of "Oriental History Review" selected fifteen outstanding young Chinese historians, hoping to find the "ambition" of this era from their interviews and masterpieces. If the challenge faced by historians during the Republic of China era was to get rid of the status of historiography as a tributary to Confucian classics and become a modern history, then our challenge today is to get rid of the narrative of class and revolutionary historical views and create a newer history that also restores the history of the past.