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The signing of the Treaty of Nanjing between China and Britain in 1842 marked the beginning of China's transformation from a feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. As one of the five treaty ports, Ningbo was the first to bear the brunt, especially the "Old Bund", which was designated as a "foreigner's trading residence". It has undergone historic changes in the past 90 years. The economic aggression of Western powers and the collision and blending of two civilizations are being accepted and developed by both sides, whether actively or by force. This book has five special topics: political situation, port economy, public security and municipal administration, church activities, and celebrity anecdotes. It is carefully compiled from a large number of historical materials to truly show Ningbo's transformation process. This book has both historical and practical value.

This book takes Maritime Silk Road culture as the main line and takes the compilation and development of Fujian local literature and information resources as the entry point for research. It analyzes the content, institutions and research status of Fujian Maritime Silk Road documentation compilation and development, and reveals the overview, characteristics, methods and main results of Fujian Maritime Silk Road documentation compilation and development. It also constructs an information resource system for the research on Fujian Maritime Silk Road documentation compilation and development, providing clues for Fujian Maritime Silk Road literature researchers to carry out research. This paper analyzes the problems existing in the compilation and development of Maritime Silk Road literature resources, and proposes development strategies such as promoting cooperation between different regions and institutions, expanding the content and form of Maritime Silk Road literature compilation and development, focusing on the refinement and standardization of Maritime Silk Road literature compilation and development, and improving the efficiency of compilation and development. It provides a reference for relevant departments to formulate Fujian Maritime Silk Road documentation compilation and development strategies, systematically collect Maritime Silk Road literature resources, and optimize related services.

This book is a popular history book that introduces the political changes in Western Asia BC, covering the period starting from the Sumerian civilization in the 4th millennium BC, passing through the Akkadian civilization, the Babylonian civilization, then the Assyrian civilization and the Persian civilization, and finally ending with the replacement of Persia by the Macedonian Empire. Compared with existing academic works, this book has three distinct characteristics: first, it puts aside historical details and focuses on outlining the context and framework of political changes in West Asia before BC, in order to help readers quickly grasp the ins and outs of ancient West Asia; second, it makes the seemingly chaotic regime more detailed Instead, it restores it to the long-lasting game between Semites and Indo-Europeans, revealing the clues and motivations of political changes in ancient West Asia; third, it connects the distant and unfamiliar ancient West Asia with major historical events in ancient East Asia, establishes a connection in time and space, and gives the history of a foreign land a sense of intimacy.

As one of the prosperous times in Chinese history, the Tang Dynasty left us with a glorious background, but under the appearance of prosperity there are always crises and responses hidden. The charm unique to the Tang Dynasty is not only reflected in institutional innovation and cultural peaks, but also in the etiquette thought and the spirit of the rule of law. The interesting thing about history is to unearth deeply buried secrets through bits and pieces of clues. This book will take you into different "case solving" scenes.

The nine heavens closed the palace, and all the nations wore their hats and bowed their heads. Li Fu unexpectedly came to the prosperous age of Tianbao. With great ambition, he bowed his head and discovered that undercurrents were surging in the four realms, and the seemingly peaceful Tang Dynasty was in danger. Starting from Haomo, he traveled to Kyushu, In the temple, he refutes the sycophants, and in the far reaches of the rivers and lakes, he suppresses evildoers with swords. Li Fu climbed to the top of power step by step, turned the tide when the Tang Dynasty was in crisis, and restored peace and prosperity to the people. \

"Modern History Materials" No. 146 Contains a total of five original materials on modern history, namely "Collection of Letters from Xu Guangjin to Ye Mingchen", "Diary of Yi Ruo (2)", "Report on Observing the War in Europe", "Diary of Travel to Chang'an", and "Letter from Lu Zhengxiang to Liu Fucheng (2)". Among them, "A Collection of Letters from Xu Guangjin to Ye Mingchen" is a letter written by Xu Guangjin and Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong when he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. It reflects the situation of the Qing army's suppression of peasant uprisings in Guangdong and Guangxi at the end of Daoguang and the beginning of Xianfeng. "Yi Ruo Diary" is the diary of Zou Jialai, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late Qing Dynasty. It records in detail the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty and the daily life of Beijing officials. "Lu Zhengxiang's Letters to Liu Fucheng (Part 2)" contains more than 220 letters written by Lu Zhengxiang to Liu Fucheng from 1936 to 1948. It not only reflects Lu Zhengxiang's life in his later years, but also discloses his interactions with Xu Jingcheng, the deeds of old figures in Beiyang politics, etc. It is of great academic value for a comprehensive understanding of Lu Zhengxiang.

This book is a serial publication of the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of History. This issue of this volume will publish 7 pieces of information, 5 of which are unpublished manuscripts or original files, 2 are translations, and 1 is a compilation of data. The main title is: "Unpublished Letters During the Period of Zhang Zhidong's Supervision of Hubei", which contains a total of 39 autographed letters from Zhang Zhidong to Yun Zuyi, Chen Baozhen, Qu Tingshao and others from the 17th year of Guangxu to the 22nd year of Guangxu. The contents involve Zhang Zhidong's Westernization measures during his supervision of Hubei, the case of Zhou Han, Li Hong's uprising against the Qing Dynasty, the Wuxue Teaching Case, the Zhang Ming Case, the loan during the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1991, the establishment of the Hubei Official Money Bureau, the Bingshen Hubei Flood and other issues are helpful to the study of Zhang Zhidong and the history of the late Qing Dynasty; "Unpublished Notes from Liang Qichao to Kang Youwei", this article collects Liang Qichao from Sino-Japanese War 1891 to 1911 Chaozhi Kang Youwei's 17 notes, mainly related to the political activities and thoughts of Kang and Liang during the Emperor's Religion period, are of great historical value in the study of the history of the late Qing Dynasty; "A Group of Western Historical Materials of Shanxi University Hall", this group of materials was written by a Westerner who was a teacher at Xizhai at that time, and the content involves Shanxi Province The establishment of new education in the city, the establishment process of Shanxi University Hall, the status of teachers, teaching activities, the design and construction of buildings, and the bibliography of translated books published by the Translation Library not only reflect Westerners' understanding of Shanxi education at that time, but also complement Chinese literature.

Postwar Germany was a country full of occupiers, freed persons, displaced persons, evacuees, escapees and those burdened with war crimes. They plunder, steal, fake identities, and start everything from scratch in order to survive. Can this be done? When a country's order is gone, how can society be reborn in such chaos? How do people rebuild their lives in such a "wolf age" where "others are evil wolves"? The loss of living order, the fragmentation of families, the threat of hunger and poverty, the shadow of war guilt, the silence about the Holocaust, the ecstasy of escaping death - the aftermath of the Third Reich continues to affect this devastated country. This book is a cultural history of daily life and people's spiritual history in Germany after World War II. It focuses on the post-war life of Germans in the ten years after World War II, especially their spiritual mentality and emotional life. The author abandons grand narratives and political frameworks and starts from the daily lives of ordinary people: the mobilization to clean up ruins, the experience of material scarcity and the black market, the pursuit of instant gratification, the experience of the Great Migration, women's awareness of autonomy, the re-education of the Allies, the miracle of economic takeoff, the cultural policy of "reshaping ideas", changes in art and design fashion, and how Germans in daily life collectively avoid the guilt of the war. The chaotic and disordered life of the German people after the war was full of multiple aspects. People had sadness and self-pity for the war, but also the desire to start over immediately, the unscrupulous means to survive, and the desire to survive and enjoy life in time. Harald Jenner offers a new, panoramic account of the first postwar decade that sheds new light on Germany's postwar recovery and the realities of daily life. It also sheds light on how and why Germany was able to transform from a sinister fascist ideology into a modern democracy.

What is "modern Japan"? What is its budding and development history? Is each node unique or resonant? How did Japan evolve from a fragmented land of warring heroes to the world's second largest economy at the end of the 20th century? This is a masterpiece of Japanese history spanning four centuries, starting from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and ending at the end of the 20th century. Marius Jensen, honorary professor at Princeton University and editor-in-chief of "Cambridge History of Japan", takes the formation and development of the modern country as a clue, leading readers through the Edo, Meiji, Showa, and Heisei eras, exploring Japan's politics and economy, thought and culture, military and diplomacy, and revealing how modern Japan was born amidst change, struggle, and innovation. The establishment of the powerful rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brigadier General Perry's forced opening of Japan's ports, and Japan's defeat in World War II. These three events initiated three periods of painful and dramatic changes in Japanese history. The author accurately captures the key figures and important events during this period. From being forced to open the country, to proactively seeking innovation and change, to crazy external expansion, these behaviors are all the result of the game of various forces and the collision of different ideological trends in the international community and Japan. This broad-scope and all-encompassing work also presents Japan's literature and art, social scene, and people's lives. As an indispensable part of history, they also make the book's narrative more interesting and humane.

Traveling through the late Han Dynasty and becoming the second son of Cao Cao, Cao Pi was very distressed when facing the threat from the aristocratic family. In addition, he suffered from tuberculosis, but fortunately he had destiny, so Cao Pi vigorously revised the New Deal and personally formulated a plan to destroy Shu and Jiangdong. Sun Shiwan (Sun Quan): "What a great Cao Pi, but he dares to covet my own territory." Cao Pi: "I haven't paid much attention to the tiny place east of the Yangtze River." Sima Yi: "... As long as I hold on to these three families, the world will belong to my Sima family!".

Lin Yu, a modern young man, accidentally traveled to the late Han Dynasty and possessed a poor scholar in Yingchuan. At that time, the Han Dynasty was in a state of turmoil, with foreign relatives and eunuchs disrupting the government, powerful and powerful separatists, and frequent rebellions. Relying on modern knowledge and wisdom, Lin Yu first made friends with celebrities and heroes in Yingchuan, implemented the New Deal to gather people's hearts, and formed an armed force to gain a foothold. Later, he participated in the rebellion against Dong's coalition forces and rose to prominence. He also saw through the selfish motives of the princes and returned to Yingchuan to strengthen his power. After annexation and expansion, he finally led the righteous army to march westward to Chang'an, defeated the rebel army, and assisted Emperor Xian in reforming. See how he fulfills his ambition to revive the Han Dynasty step by step in this troubled world!

The Ming Dynasty created countless brilliance, so why did it collapse so quickly in the last 60 years? Emperor Chongzhen worked hard throughout his life, so why couldn't he save the Ming Dynasty from decline? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many famous generals and a huge army. Why were they defeated by the Jurchens with a population of only a few hundred thousand? How did Li Zicheng destroy the Ming Dynasty step by step? This book looks back at the predicament of the Ming Dynasty in the last 60 years, starting from the three main lines of Chaotang Rebellion, Liaodong Dilemma and Peasant Uprising. It analyzes the Ming Dynasty's numerous political, military, economic and other crises and countermeasures, reveals the Ming Dynasty's internal and external contradictions, reflects on the reasons for the Ming Dynasty's demise, and interprets this history of its rise and fall from a new perspective.

In world history, the Silk Road is a famous symbol. So what does it actually look like? People often imagine it as a hazy scene: camel caravans carrying silks traveling through the dusty desert, between China and Rome. But this book will reveal to you: the reality is very different, and much more interesting than this picture. The author uses a large number of the latest archaeological discoveries, synthesizes cutting-edge research results in six languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Russian, and adds dozens of first-hand documentary materials based on the previous edition. These documentary materials involve a variety of ancient languages, including memoirs of ancient Chinese monks and modern explorers, letters written by ancient women, legal contracts, religious hymns, etc. "From Dunhuang to Samarkand" has higher academic value and a more popular story. It also allows readers to get closer to all aspects of the ancient Silk Road and feel the true appearance of the Silk Road in person.

This book is the seventh volume in the series "The History of Chinese Civilization" written by a famous Chinese historian in Japan. It starts with the birth of Genghis Khan and introduces the entire process of Genghis Khan's unification of various Mongolian tribes, establishment of the Mongol Empire, and then the Mongol Empire's conquest of Eurasia. After that, it mainly talks about the transformation of the Mongol Empire into the Yuan Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty, as well as its economic, social and diplomatic conditions, etc., Including a more detailed introduction to Kublai Khan's two expeditions to Japan.

This book narrates the history of more than 1,600 years from the Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a unique classic general history book. Based on his own historical perspective, the author made relatively strict selections and choices about Chinese history before the Eastern Han Dynasty. He used storytelling to write about the important events of each dynasty, focusing on describing the changes in Chinese society, ideological contributions, and the personalities and activities of several important figures. The book is rich in content. It not only tells about the changes of dynasties, political rise and fall, and social changes, but also describes cultural development, commercial economy, regional folk customs, and public life. It can be said to be all-encompassing. The author has both literature and history, and uses literary language to write a national history beautifully and movingly. His thoughts and wisdom are thorough and accessible, and the author's talent and intention are revealed everywhere. This enables readers to enjoy the beauty of history and appreciate the wonders of literature.

This is the golden age of ancient China! During the 300 years, there was a prosperous and prosperous era that everyone knew - talents emerged in large numbers, nations came to the dynasty, and everything was full of vitality; during the 300 years, there was heartbreaking turmoil and chaos - the eunuchs disrupted the government, vassal towns were separatist, and the dynasty gradually declined. How did the Tang Dynasty enter the glorious age, and how did it fall into the quagmire of chaos? This book uses time as the context and events as the connection, supplemented by rich historical details and character portrayals, to vividly describe the prosperity and decline, peace and chaos of the Tang Dynasty. The book starts from the grievances and hatreds between Tang Emperor Li Yuan and the Yang family, and the entrepreneurial process of seizing the country, to the shocking inside story of the Maweipo Incident, and then to the tragic story of Tang Xing in the Liang Dynasty. It involves 22 emperors and focuses on 11 key nodes. It completely reproduces the grand scenes written by Li Bai and the troubled times written by Du Fu!

This is the beginning of the "Chinese History from Scratch" series, which focuses on the history of the pre-Qin era and shows how Chinese civilization originated and was shaped. Due to the lack of written records, people know very little about pre-Qin history, especially the history before Xia. This time, through the textual research of a large number of documents and the study of archaeological data, the author used one wonderful story after another to restore the appearance of the land of China more than 5,000 years ago, telling the thousands of years of history from the mythical battle between Huangdi and Chiyou to the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, the rise of the Shang Dynasty, and then to the establishment and collapse of the Zhou Dynasty's feudal system. In the book, we can see the Yellow Emperor who carried the political ideals of future generations, the dark version of the abdication of Yao and Shun, the magnificent Xia Palace City and Xia civilization, the Yin Ruins and the Shang Dynasty that shocked the world, and how the Zhou Dynasty was established by the small and broad-minded Zhou people, and how all the hundreds of vassal states in the Zhou Dynasty fell into the hands of Qin. Start reading from scratch, explore where China comes from, and understand the original appearance of China.

In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 occurred in China; in 1914, the First World War broke out, and China entered the war three years later; in 1919, China sent a delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and then the May Fourth Movement broke out. From the Revolution of 1911 to the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, what was the situation in China like? Western media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor carried many reports. Many Westerners who came to China, including Nobel Prize-winning writer Pearl Buck, also told stories about China. At the Paris Peace Conference, in order to regain Shandong's rights and interests, how did China's Ambassador to the United States Gu Weijun, China's Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang and others mediate? Wilson wanted to help China recover its rights and interests in Shandong, so why did he compromise with Japan and what were the consequences? Is the origin of the May 4th Movement related to Wilson's advocacy of equality and national self-determination? Chinese intellectual elites such as Hu Shi, Cai Yuanpei, and Chen Duxiu led the May Fourth New Culture Movement. The United States compromised with Japan, and they were disappointed with the United States. But the Western news media saw the drastic changes taking place in China, which was called "China's awakening." Historian Wang Di's new book "Chronicles of China: 1912-1919" shows this magnificent and colorful non-fiction history.

After the death of Emperor Zhengde, he had no children. Zhu Houcong, the crown prince of Xingfan, succeeded him as Emperor Jiajing. All civil and military officials asked him to succeed him. As his heir, he recognized his cousin Emperor Hongzhi as his father and called his biological father uncle. This triggered a "Great Ceremony" that shocked the court for twenty-four years. In order to honor his biological parents, Emperor Jiajing did not hesitate to use force to suppress the group of officials who protested in Fuque, leading to the Zuoshunmen massacre; he compiled the "Minglun Dadian" to construct a theoretical text on the legitimacy of imperial power; he fabricated charges to block the way of speech and stifled the policy of "serving the king as a teacher" among scholars. The ideal of governance; the constant changes in national etiquette and laws, called "restoring the ancestral system", actually improved the political status of the biological father and consolidated his own imperial power; he also controlled the ministers, expanded the power of the cabinet, changed chief ministers several times, and the political atmosphere of the court declined, creating conditions for intensified party struggles. This book studies the changes in the political culture of the Jiajing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty through the "Great Ceremony" incident, especially the issue surrounding the entry of Emperor Jiajing's biological father, God Zhu Youqi, into the Nephew Ancestral Temple. Jiajing monarchs and ministers argued with each other for many years. In the end, Emperor Jiajing got his wish and named his biological father the ancestral temple, which also achieved the purpose of reshaping imperial power and transforming a small sect into a large ancestral temple. However, Emperor Jiajing shook up the political and cultural system based on "rituals", privatized imperial power, and confused the status and etiquette, which led to political turmoil, conflicts between emperors and ministers, and social disorder crises in the middle Ming Dynasty, and even the gradual collapse and disintegration of the political order in the late Ming Dynasty.

"A Minimalist General History of China" is Mr. Lu Simian's famous historical work, and it is also the first general history of China told in vernacular in the history of our country. The original name of this book is "The History of the Country, Fuxing Senior High School Textbook". It is a general history of China written for high school students in the 1930s by the great historian Mr. Lu Simian. The author uses concise and smooth words to give a comprehensive description of China's politics, geography, society, culture, etc. From ancient times to modern times. The book is full of citations, vivid in form, clear in organization, and unique in insights. It is an excellent popular reading on the general history of China.

Deep in the mountains of Shanxi, a death wave from 1940 appeared with a drone. Anchor Lin Xia's live broadcast of the deciphering resulted in red coordinates and the last-minute "didi" countdown from the dispatcher. The truth solidified into a monument with the tears of the old soldier - but deep in the cave, the sound of electricity never stopped...

Ning'an was terminally ill and was about to die. The strongest historical joker system was successfully bound. Historical Paragraph 1: In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Queen Ma became old and beautiful, and her family's backers were slaughtered. Why don't any concubines unite to fight openly and secretly to seize the throne and pave the way for their own family? Divine Comment 1: From then on, Hongwu only had the slander case and the Hongwu Four Minor Cases. Divine Comment 2: I suggest you do a literary stand-in, always carry a piece of cake with you, and be sure to take it out from your chest when you see Lao Zhu. Historical Paragraph 2: The three efforts to build the Han Dynasty ended up in vain, and the Prime Minister shed tears in Wuzhangyuan. But if General Tiance replaced Liu Chan, would the destiny of the Han Dynasty be with him? God's Comment 1: My husband is optimistic about it, so I can only demonstrate it once. The number of people opposite me is only enough for me to demonstrate it once. Divine Commentary 2: The prime minister burst into tears and left his master: the late emperor started a business but the middle path collapsed, and the young master's father worshiped the sky and turned into a tiger instantly. The third, the fourth... Looking at these historical passages, the ancient emperors collectively broke their defenses.

Come to Yuewen's website Li Xuan traveled into the world of bad people. The good news is that he is a prince, but the bad news is that the Tang Dynasty has just destroyed the country. As soon as he crossed over, he was chased and killed by the five kings of hell. Fortunately, Awakening has the strongest check-in system. Check in at Yuan Tiangang and get the side-effect-free version of the elixir. Check in to surrender and get the perfect version of "I hate you so much, I want to kill you." Check in the Big Cave Master to get the secret secret skill of Twelve Cave "Shura Tiansha Body", the full health version of the Weapon God and Monster Altar. Li Xuan just wanted to sign in and play every day and see how Yuan Tiangang couldn't help Li Xingyun with three hundred years of skill. Until one day, when Li Xuan once again laughed at Li Xingyun as an Adou who couldn't help him. Li Xingyun: "Uncle, you should be the emperor." Yuan Tiangang (suddenly enlightened and suddenly knelt down): "Your Majesty, please quickly inherit the throne and help me in the Tang Dynasty!" Li Xuan (horrified): "I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense." He really just wants to live a life without shame with the empress, Xianshen, Jiangchen, Lin Xuan, and Shuliduo. Let him proclaim himself emperor? Didn't that hurt him? (Chen Youliang's face).

Traveling through Ma Xiuying, Zhu Yuanzhang, you can abdicate!

In this era, network metaphors are increasingly important. The information age (informationage) we live in has been called a network society (networksociety). In the space we live in, the Internet is everywhere. These networks vary widely, from the biological webs of hyphae connecting fungi, to railway networks, to the invisible electromagnetic binary networks with which modern humans communicate. In contemporary society, the significance of the Internet has broken through the boundaries of academia. It became a verb, and to network became a core concept in contemporary professional and private interpersonal interactions. Various social media based on this concept have greatly changed the lives of the public in the past 30 years. This book is a collection of the results of the third conference in the "Writing History: Reflections in Practice" series of conferences held in 2017, "Weaving History - Connections and Representations in History." It shows how researchers in history and other humanities and social sciences pursue the ancient and novel metaphor of the network and turn it into a way of telling the past and the current world.

This book follows Marxist ideas and theories about science and history and their relationship, and is based on long-term geographical ideological methods and historical research. With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and on the basis of previous relevant works and papers, this book completes "History of Geographic Thought-A Long Chronology of Geographic Events Centered on China." This book systematically studies and expounds a long chronology of major geographical events from "before the 25th century BC" to "since the 21st century AD", with the development of world geography as the background and Chinese geography as the center. This book is an academic work on geography and can also be used for the teaching and research of geography undergraduates, masters, doctoral students and other related courses such as "Introduction to Geographic Science" and "Geographic Thought Methods".

This book takes Zhang Juzheng's reform group as the research object and places Zhang Juzheng's reform in the historical evolution background of the middle and late Ming Dynasty. By examining Zhang Juzheng's reform group and its evolution, it reveals the complex relationship between Zhang Juzheng's reform group and Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the political structure of the late Ming Dynasty, and the social changes of the late Ming Dynasty. This book implements empirical research and, on the basis of fully studying existing research results, systematically collects and organizes documents related to Zhang Juzheng's reform group since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including official history, local chronicles, archives, anthologies, notes, family trees, inscriptions, oral historical materials, etc. It pays attention to the excavation of new historical materials, especially local documents, and discovers multiple aspects of history from the documents. Highlight the perspective of social history group research, and examine the characteristics, value tendencies and interactions of Zhang Juzheng's reform group through macroscopic stage grasp and microscopic case analysis, focusing on the integration of political history research with social changes and cultural changes. By sorting out important issues such as Zhang Juzheng's reform group and national political operations, changes in social life, and balance of interests, the important role and historical influence of Zhang Juzheng's reform group in the social evolution of the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty are profoundly explained, providing historical reference for my country to further promote the reform cause in the new era.

"Songshan Academic Journal" (formerly known as "Modern Henan and China Studies") is an academic journal sponsored by the Modern Henan and China Research Center of Zhengzhou University, a key base of humanities and social sciences in Henan Province. It was founded in 2013 and has published 8 volumes. Starting from the 8th series, the name of the journal has been changed to "Songshan Academic Journal". One series is published every year and is published by China Social Sciences Press. This is the 8th series. It has five columns: economic and social research, ideological and cultural research, political and military research, research reviews and historical material reviews. Adhering to the purpose of "examining Henan from a Chinese perspective, interpreting China with Henan's facts, continuing the cultural context of the Central Plains from the rich history, and inheriting Chinese civilization in the great reality", it mainly publishes outstanding academic achievements in the field of modern Chinese history, highlighting originality, cutting-edgeness, and systematicity. It also appropriately publishes rare materials and oral histories related to local history research.

This book innovatively adopts the dual perspectives of Britain and Southeast Asia, combined with the background of real-time international relations between Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia, and uses a comparative method to longitudinally examine the similarities and differences between Malaya and Myanmar in the process of colonial formation, coping with British political, economic, educational and social colonial policies, as well as retaining British colonial heritage after the war, and choosing the path of decolonization. The results show that colonization and being colonized are a historical process of unequal two-way interaction. This process is not only closely related to the pre-colonial histories of Malaysia and Myanmar, but also played a crucial role in the construction of modern nation-states after the war.

Differences are ubiquitous in current historical research. Differences diversify our research objects and themes. Differences are changing our questioning methods. More importantly, the connection between differences and identity makes us have a more complex relationship with the research objects. This book is a collection of the results of the discussion on "Difference and Current Historical Writing", the second of the series of conferences "Writing History: Reflections in Practice" held in 2016. It shows the possibility of current historical research and also shows that differences emerge at different stages and levels of historical writing. Asking about difference is also asking, in historical writing, what is its antonym, and how do the entanglements of meaning associated with it emerge? The semantic changes of difference are caused by the accumulation of academic history and have penetrated into the daily practice of historians. From encountering "historical materials" to searching for explanations, and even encountering research results with readers, every step is closely related to difference.

In the minds of the world, the Donglin Party members mainly have a positive image of loyalty, uprightness, and majesty. Later generations generally have sympathy and admiration for them. This image of Donglin has its own process of formation, shaping, acceptance, dissemination and solidification. The late Ming Dynasty of Donglin's activities was naturally an important stage in this process. The general acceptance and dissemination of this image by officials and people in the Qing Dynasty not only inherited the existing tone of the late Ming Dynasty, but also inspired modern times. It influenced the modern and contemporary comments on Donglin, non-Donglin, and party disputes in the late Ming Dynasty. It is still in the ascendant today. The first part of this book mainly examines the many performances of Donglin people and their supporters in shaping and maintaining the image of Donglin in the late Ming Dynasty. The second part focuses on the writing situation and reasons of Donglin in the Qing revision of "History of the Ming Dynasty". "History of the Ming Dynasty" generally establishes a good biography of Dong Lin, and the characters who are opposed to Dong Lin are included in the "Biography of the Eunuch" and "The Biography of the Traitor", which represents the attitude towards the two parties and their fighting history in the late Ming Dynasty, and also greatly affected later generations' judgment on this issue. However, his acceptance and dissemination of Donglin's words were selective. On the one hand, he established a good reputation for Donglin in the mainstream and praised the noble character and loyal actions of some people in Donglin; on the other hand, there were often so-called "cadences" between the lines, criticizing Donglin's lectures and party-building behavior. This was mainly due to the fact that the Qing Dynasty made flexible use of the historical resource of Donglin based on its actual needs.

"Space" is one of the most basic categories in modern humanities, and has always been subject to in-depth research in various professional fields. Titled "How Much Space Is There for 'Space'?", This book invites more than ten young scholars currently active in the fields of environmental history, urban history, anthropology, art history, archaeology, political history, historical geography, etc. To write articles to present the diversity of current "space" research and explore the possibility of echoes, interactions, and cooperation between various fields. According to the problem awareness and research direction, this book is divided into five parts, namely "the mutual shaping of settlement, nature and culture", "spatial presentation in images", "painted land divisions and dynastic governance", "information flow, discourse expression and power space" and "multiple structures of the burial domain". What the editors and authors hope to discuss with readers is not only the space of "space" research, but also the space of humanities itself in the modern world. Based on the openness of this topic, the division of the above five parts and even the order within each part are variable during reading. Readers are invited to explore freely according to their interests.

This book takes the pattern and concepts of ethnic geography in the southwest during the Warring States, Qin, and Han Dynasties as the research object. It aims to sort out and study in detail the evolutionary pattern of ethnic groups and the impact of the "Hua-Yi distinction" thought on the construction of ethnic space, reveal the construction path of the ethnic geography view, and clarify the connection between the ethnic geography view and the spatial construction of a unified multi-ethnic country. Based on the combing of Chinese historical records, Chinese-translated Yi historical records, archaeology, inscriptions, environmental archaeology and other materials, and the use of methods such as document analysis, iconography, environmental history, and conceptual history, the study reveals: (1) The evolution of southwest ethnic groups in the Warring States, Qin, and Han Dynasties has dual characteristics of regionality and ethnic origin, and the "regional plurality" of the evolution of southwest ethnic groups and the "holistic plurality" of the evolution of the Chinese nation have formed a coordinated evolution pattern; (2) The concept of ethnogeography and ethnic space are the space of a unified multi-ethnic country. The construction process of the multi-pattern ethnogeographic view is a process of constructing ethnic political geographical space that is structured, ordered and characterized by "differential patterns"; (3) The construction of the ethnogeographic view is the product of the realistic ethnic evolution pattern, the classic "people of five directions" ethnic cognitive model, and the need for the spatial construction of a unified multi-ethnic country. It reflects the coordinated evolution of national and regional ethnic groups and the spatial construction situation of a unified multi-ethnic country. In summary, this book attempts to clarify that the concept of ethnogeography should be an important research content in historical ethnography, preliminarily constructs a research path for the concept of ethnogeography in the Warring States, Qin, and Han Dynasties and Southwest China, and emphasizes the significance of the concept of ethnogeography in the spatial construction of a unified multi-ethnic country.

This book takes Guyuan, an important Silk Road town, as the research object and the rise and fall of the Silk Road as the research perspective. It systematically explores the historical changes in the ancient Guyuan region in terms of the evolution of administrative divisions, the evolution of military status, economic development, ethnic integration, and cultural exchange and inheritance. On this basis, it comprehensively demonstrates the gains and losses of past dynasties' policies in managing the northwest frontier, and explains the historical process of the ancient Guyuan region's evolution from a borderland to a hinterland.

"Ming History Research Series" is sponsored by the Ming History Research Office of the Institute of Ancient History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This series is the autumn issue of 2023. It has three columns: monographs, graduate assignments, and book reviews. It includes the evolution of the selection system for grassroots military attachés in the Beijing camp in the Ming Dynasty, and an examination of the flag service and gun system in the Ming Dynasty. , The stratification of living standards in the Ming Dynasty and its measurement standards, the local false accusation trend and its judicial practice in the Ming Dynasty, the financing of construction funds and the financial operation of the Ministry of Industry during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the composition and influence of the group of examiners of the Yingtian Township Examination in the Ming Dynasty, and the analysis of the historical value of Gongyuan Records in the Ming Dynasty.

This book takes "re-walking" as an opportunity, "new knowledge" as its purpose, and uses fieldwork from an anthropological perspective as a method to show the investigation and understanding of traveling in Gannan. It attempts to use field diaries as a form to combine participant observation methods, in-depth interview methods and academic speculation to reveal the practical characteristics of "re-walking" and achieve meaning production that obtains new discoveries, new cognitions and new speculations. This book focuses on the interaction of space, subject and meaning in Gannan, and is characterized by rational investigation and poetic experience. It aims to highlight the connection between real records and individual imagination, emotional experience and academic examination, and in the multi-dimensional integration of recording, writing, dissemination and research, it thinks about the current Chinese scene in the relationship between individuals, nations, countries and the world.

This book aims to reflect the main research results of the core concepts of the discipline in the field of domestic history theory since the new century, to form a more comprehensive understanding and grasp of the research situation in this field, and to make systematic and in-depth thinking on some of the major historical theoretical issues. In this way, we can promote the creative development of current Chinese historical theory and stimulate the disciplinary ability to conduct international academic dialogue. This book goes from an overall explanation of the core concepts of historical theory to an analysis of individual cases based on countries, historians, and theorists. These contents not only present the breakthrough development of the theoretical discipline construction of history in the 21st century as a whole, but also effectively and concretely explain the foundation of the construction of the theoretical discipline system, academic system and discourse system of Chinese history theory.

After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, China received support from many non-governmental aid organizations in the international community, the most prominent of which was the British Aid to China Association, known as the Chinese people's "most loyal friend in the Western Hemisphere." The China Aid Association was established in September 1937. It not only set off an upsurge in aiding China and resisting Japan in the UK, but also established a platform for international cooperation to aid China, making the UK once the center of the world's aid to China movement. Based on rich historical materials, this book examines the entire process of the establishment, development and withdrawal of the China Aid Club from the historical stage, and analyzes the reasons for the early vigorous development of the China Aid Club and its gradual decline in the later period. The historical contributions and limitations of the China Aid Association were also discussed, providing a new perspective for understanding the aid China movement of international civil society organizations.

Mr. Wang Zhonghan (1913-2007) is a famous expert on Qing and Manchu history in modern China. This book provides an in-depth analysis and study of Wang Zhonghan's academic path and historical achievements, revealing that his historical style is both rooted in traditional Chinese historiography and influenced by modern historical ideas and methods; it has both the characteristics of the times and his personal characteristics. This book is not only an individual study of Wang Zhonghan, but also a further exploration of the context and patterns of the development of modern Chinese historiography through individual cases.

The manuscript selects and interprets twenty articles from "Historical Records". Centered on the text of "Historical Records". Careful reading of the text is the core content of the manuscript, ensuring the origin, reliability, and authenticity of the stories we tell about historical figures. Only through careful reading of the text can readers travel through historical time and space and truly experience, feel and grasp the lives of historical figures. On the one hand, it attaches great importance to the explanation of words, sentences and the system of names and objects, and strives to be concise, accurate and clear; on the other hand, it further explores the moral connotation of the text and strives to better combine the methods of literature research and the method of moral research.

This book focuses on some basic concepts and methods involved in studying the history of academic thought on classic documents and pre-Qin history, with both reflection and exploration. It advocates using hundreds of schools to examine schools, using scholars to examine scholars during their official careers, and using "main parts" and "thematic ideas" to examine the formation of ancient books. At the same time, it proposes the theory of homology, origin of family, theory of public and private meaning, diachronic research method, rules of double evidence method, rhyming method, etc. Some of them are not the author's invention, but are just expanded discussions and special names on the basis of previous sages and philosophers to highlight their importance and promote them, such as the investigation of the scholars' travels during their official career, the theory of the same text and the same origin, etc.

This book conducts relevant research on Yuan Jie's life, deeds and works, supplements Yuan Jie's life and deeds, and compiles some of his lost works; it systematically discusses Yuan Jie's thoughts on comics, clean government, filial piety, and governance of barbarians, and reveals the complexity of Yuan Jie's thoughts. Complexity and profundity; at the same time, the literary thoughts and literary achievements of Yuan Jie were studied, and the breakthroughs and innovations of Yuan Jie in the preface and landscape inscriptions were pointed out; finally, the creative background, theme, dissemination and acceptance of "Ode to the Zhongxing of the Tang Dynasty" were discussed. This book conducts a comprehensive study of Yuan Jie's life, thoughts, and literary creation, trying to reveal Yuan Jie's many achievements.

The manuscript is a collection of essays written by teachers who worked at the Institute of World History from 2004 to 2019. The papers have been published. The manuscript is divided into five volumes, namely "Study of Ancient Medieval Times", "Study of Russian and Central Asia", "Study of European and American History", "Study of Asia, Africa and Latin America" ​​and "Study of Historical Theory". The manuscript mainly includes the following articles: Yi Jianping's "Re-understanding of the Definition of Country", Liu Jian's "Ritual Characteristics and Functions of Hittite Kilam Festival Activities", Lu Houliang's "Ephibian Culture in the Classical Period of Athens", Zhu Hongjun's "Citizens' Assembly in Ancient Sparta", Wang Chaohua's "Analysis of the Legal Status of Servants in Medieval England", etc.

After World War II, striving for hegemony with the Soviet Union and containing the "expansion" of communism in Asia and the Pacific were the top priorities of the United States' Asian security policy. To this end, the United States manipulated the United Nations Security Council to hand over the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia Islands to the United States under trusteeship. Since then, the United States has implemented the strategy of "military denial" and "military veto" in the Micronesian Islands, establishing large military bases as "forward bases" to compete with the Soviet Union for Pacific hegemony and as military fortresses to prevent other major powers from entering the Pacific from the west coast of the Pacific. In order to occupy this strategic military area for a long time, successive U. S. Governments have repeatedly obstructed the people of the Micronesian Islands from achieving national independence and self-determination. At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was forced to allow the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau to become independent due to pressure from local people and the international community. However, the three countries also paid a heavy price for their national independence: they were forced to sign the "Free Association Agreement" with the United States, allowing the United States to continue to implement the "military denial" and "military veto" strategies in the region and retain troops and military bases.

When he woke up, he found that he had become Song Jiang, and he was accompanied by three die-hard brothers. Let's see how he sets off that huge wave in this strange world of Water Margin.

This book adheres to Marxist historical materialism, seeks truth from facts, integrates theory with practice, and implements the policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend". It pays attention to historical theory, focuses on major academic issues in Chinese history, and advocates academic debate in order to prosper and promote the healthy development of historical science. This book mainly publishes representative academic papers in the fields of historical theory, Chinese historical research, and historical philology.

The Qin and Han dynasties were an era of earth-shaking changes in ancient China since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. The establishment of the unified state of Qin and Han was a new starting point for the formation of China's unified dynastic state and the Han nation. It was a pivotal period in the transformation from the patriarchal feudal state government and the early Chinese nation marked by "Zhuxia" to a unified monarchy and centralized state and a unified Han nation. It has epoch-making milestone significance. However, the process of state construction, national identity, and social integration during the Qin and Han Dynasties did not develop in a linear manner, but experienced a tortuous and reciprocating process. This book contains a total of 18 papers, starting from the state construction, social integration, and the interactive relationship between the state and society during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and studying the Qin and Han systems, Qin and Han national consciousness, Qin and Han grassroots social integration, and the development and evolution of various classes in the Qin and Han Dynasties. This book has important academic value for in-depth understanding of the unified relationship and dynamic characteristics of the country, nation, and society in ancient China.

This series is a collection of the Institute of Historical Theory of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It is composed of important articles selected from the institute's journal "Historical Theoretical Research". It consists of five volumes, namely "Historical Materialism and Historical Research", "Marxist Historiography and Historians", "Chinese Historical Theory and Historiography", "Foreign Historical Theory and Historiography" and "New Issues and Trends in Historical Theoretical Research". Under the guidance of Marxist historical materialism, this collection has important academic and practical significance in discovering and summarizing the theoretical heritage in the Chinese historical tradition, introducing and summarizing the development experience and contemporary trends of Chinese historical theory abroad, promoting the exchange of historical theories at home and abroad in China, cultivating historical theoretical talents, and promoting the construction of a historical theoretical system suitable for China's conditions.

This book takes the National Grain Administration, a central-level specialized grain administration agency first established by the National Government from August 1940 to July 1941, as the research object. Focusing on the important transitional node from "freedom" to "control" of food during wartime, this book conducts a comprehensive investigation of the establishment and development, personnel changes, grain policy implementation, interactive games, and role play of the National Grain Administration. This book points out that the establishment of the National Grain Management Bureau was not only an "emergency" means to deal with the food crisis in an increasingly tense war situation, a useful exploration to support the Anti-Japanese War, but also played a "buffering" role in integrating food management into the wartime economic system. However, the National Grain Management Bureau failed to achieve "immediate results". In addition, factional struggles within the Kuomintang and the food crisis further intensified. It was abolished in less than a year and replaced by the Ministry of Grain. Certain policies of the National Grain Management Bureau laid the foundation for the Ministry of Grain to control grain.

This book focuses on the literary historical facts of the spread of late-Victorian naturalism in Britain. It takes the critical debates and interactive mechanisms in the spread of French naturalist writers' works in the UK as the research object. It mainly uses theories such as genetics, communication, and reception aesthetics. On the basis of exploring the "worldliness" of naturalism, it systematically conducts a multi-dimensional investigation and in-depth exploration of the process, morphological characteristics, reasons for resistance, effects, and historical evolution of the spread of naturalism in the UK, and outlines the three-dimensional scene of the spread of naturalism in the UK.