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This book is a collection of articles written by Mr. Liu Zehua, a famous historian, expert on the history of Chinese thought, and honorary professor of Nankai University, on various issues in the study of the history of Chinese political thought. It was selected and compiled by Professor Ge Quan after extensive listening to suggestions. This book takes the research objects and research methods of the history of Chinese political thought as clues, discusses the context and characteristics of Chinese political thought and culture from different angles, and conducts detailed discussions on common concepts and issues in traditional Chinese society that cannot be bypassed by historical research. I believe it can not only provide inspiration for history professionals to carry out academic research, but also help general readers better understand tradition and history. The language of this book is simple and easy to understand, the text is smooth and fluent, the reasoning is penetrating, and the views are vivid. It is an excellent historical reading.

The pre-Qin period was the beginning of Chinese literature. Literature and other cultural events were integrated without being separated, and poetry and rituals interacted closely and intertextually. Based on previous research, this book starts from the perspective of ancient customs and rituals, and comprehensively uses research methods from related disciplines such as poetics, philology, archeology, cultural anthropology, etc., Breaking through the previous research pattern that focused on the Book of Songs, Songs of Chu, ballads, and lost poems. The author combines the process of Pre-Qin rituals from the separation of sacred and secular to communication and interaction, describes and analyzes the connotation, generation, form, dissemination, evolution and authorship of Pre-Qin poetry, and proposes new perspectives such as "song as ritual recitation theory", "epic as ritual narrative theory", "carnivalization of love songs" and "Nine Songs of Chu Song theory". It is a useful attempt to construct new categories and new theories for the study of Pre-Qin poetry.

The medical welfare system is one of the important manifestations of the Song Dynasty government's benevolent governance ideology. The development and integration of traditional Chinese culture such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in the Song Dynasty were the ideological roots of its emergence. It was gradually established and implemented under the background that the ruling class attached great importance to medicine. It was led by government actions and provided different medical benefits to different objects such as the royal family and officials, soldiers and civilians. Under the tenet of "medicine is a benevolent skill" that embodies benevolent government, with the purpose of implementing medical welfare and stabilizing social order, it is gradually implemented mainly through the submissions of ministers, the emperor's edicts and decisions, and the establishment of medical administration agencies, etc., Forming a top-down medical welfare system guarantee system from the central to local governments. The whole book mainly discusses it from six aspects: its ideological origin, proposal, edict and decision-making, medical and political establishment, implementation group, and historical reference.

Xuezheng, the full name of "Admiral Xuezheng", also known as "Inspector Messenger", commonly known as "Xuetai", was a local cultural and education administrative official in the Qing Dynasty. "Late Qing Academic Affairs and Modern Academics" starts from understanding the functions of academic administration, examines the responsibilities of academicians and priests, and discusses five major problems that affect the completion of its mission. Next, we will analyze the activities of the academic administration in detail, including the examinations hosted by the academic administration, the issuance of literature to encourage students to study, the expansion of epigraphy and local history by the academic administration, the compilation and publication of academic books and the commendation of sages for inheriting academics, the establishment of academies by the academic administration, etc. On the basis of comprehensively displaying academic affairs activities, it highlights the relationship between academic affairs and modern academics.

This is a history of venture capital in China written in the form of a "biographical biography". The book takes the twenty years of venture capital development in China as the main context, starting from the development of venture capital capital, from germination, pioneering, to localization, professionalization, and then to popularization. It selects representative events and individuals, cuts through the details, and restores the whole process of capital localization and investor role changes in a panoramic manner, allowing more readers to have a deeper understanding of this 20-year history. The book not only contains stories about the venture capital industry, but also selects representative figures such as Jin Haitao, Zhang Lei, Shen Nanpeng, Zhang Ying, etc. To specifically restore their thinking, decision-making and roles in a series of business stories, helping readers to more specifically perceive the different historical stages that China's entrepreneurial environment has experienced. The history of China's venture capital in these 20 years is not just a "money history" full of copper odor, but a "humanities history" composed of living people with local characteristics and involving entrepreneurship, investment, capital and decision-making.

This book closely follows the historical context of the spread of Chinese characters in Japan, and comprehensively and systematically sorts out and studies the spread and use of Chinese characters in Japan through statistical analysis of the spread and evolution of Chinese characters in various eras in Japan, as well as describing changes in the number, frequency, variants, and form-meaning relationships of Japanese Chinese characters over time. It is the first academic monograph on the study of the spread of overseas Chinese characters by country, and has important practical significance to fill the academic gap. This book has four major chapters and seven appendices. It takes the introduction, popularization, inheritance and improvement as clues, takes ancient dictionaries as the main context, and combines rare documents such as Japanese epigraphy, wooden slips, and ancient documents to carefully describe the spread, acceptance, and development of Chinese characters in Japan in various historical periods from aspects such as word size, variant characters, and changes in the relationship between form and meaning. It uses the research methods of the development history of Chinese characters to study the history of the spread of Chinese characters in Japan. In addition, the related Chinese character collections formed under the influence of Japan's modern Chinese character policy, as well as the influence of the Meiji era calligraphy books on the character collections, are also new contents studied in this book, making this book a general history of Japanese Chinese characters. It is worth mentioning that the materials involved in the appendix of this book also have very high academic value and application value, and have certain guiding significance for related topic research.

Since the History of Xixia was not compiled in the Yuan Dynasty, records of natural disasters are lacking. This book uses historical documents and Xixia documents and cultural relics unearthed in modern times to conduct a systematic discussion on the history of Xixia disasters. The book is divided into four chapters. The first is the historical evolution and natural and humanistic conditions of Xixia; the second is the disasters and characteristics of Xixia, including a summary of disasters, major disasters, their spatial and temporal distribution and disaster characteristics; the third is the harm and impact of disasters, including loss of life and property, the impact on politics, military, economy and society, and has affected the demise of some cities; the fourth is disaster relief and prevention measures and lessons learned in disaster response. In the conclusion, it is pointed out that comprehensive national strength is the basis for disaster prevention and reduction. Xixia's comprehensive national strength is weak and unable to cope with natural disasters. Therefore, maintaining the unity of the country is very necessary for disaster prevention and reduction, and substantive disaster prevention and relief measures should be strengthened. Natural disasters are a common challenge facing mankind, and all countries should strengthen cooperation. The book contains more than 130 pictures to facilitate readers' comparison of pictures and texts.

Land tax reduction or exemption is a fiscal and taxation management activity carried out by traditional countries to exempt (including temporary exemptions and deferrals) all or part of the land tax that people are legally required to pay. From the perspective of national fiscal expenditure, the manuscript divides the land tax exemption and exemption in the Song Dynasty into three types of exemption and exemption: free expenditure type, economic compensation type and financial subsidy type. It also analyzes the operation process and actual effect of the land tax exemption and exemption system in the Song Dynasty, and analyzes the historical and ideological roots of the land tax exemption and exemption system in the Song Dynasty.

This book uses the burial objects and bamboo slips and documentary materials related to the Qin and Han Dynasty Si Yue official offices to establish the concept that "new archaeological materials never exist in isolation". It attaches great importance to the connection between archeology, history and philology, so as to discover the causal connection and era information among the three. This book conducts in-depth research on issues such as the inheritance and evolution of the Qin and Han Dynasty's Music Bureau's organizational system, the management and operation mechanism of the Qin and Han Dynasty's Music Bureau, the job establishment and job remuneration of public service musicians in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the creation of Yuefu institutions in the Western Han Dynasty and the changes and expansion of Yuefu functions, and the relationship between the reform of the Yuefu system in the Han Dynasty and the prosperity and development of folk music, dance and opera.

For 2,600 years, poets, economists, philosophers, historians and theologians have pondered the mysteries of money. Who invented money and why? Does money function beyond our control, as if it has a mind of its own? How has it changed world history and culture? What does numismatics reveal about the past that we cannot discover from other sources? How did modern science promote the development of numismatics? What is the future of numismatics? Coins are inseparable from our economic, social, political, religious and cultural history. Talking Money explores various aspects of money.

"Arab Studies Series" is a collection of Arab studies sponsored by the Arab Studies Center of Beijing International Studies University, the regional and national research base of the Ministry of Education. The content focuses on the politics, economy, society, culture and diplomacy of Arab countries. Based on the Arab Studies Forum, this journal selects academic papers published by scholars at the forum and compiles them into a volume to benefit the accumulation of domestic Arab studies. This book is the 11th issue and is divided into two columns: country and regional focus, and Arabic language and literature.

Few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of a man in the deep like whaling. Eric Dolin begins his vivid account of Captain John Smith's failed whaling adventure in the New World in 1614. Subsequently, we will witness the rapid rise of an industry: from the brutal struggles of the American Revolution to the golden age of the mid-19th century, when a fleet of more than 700 whaling ships crisscrossed the oceans, and American whale oil illuminated the world. Eventually, it declined rapidly when the 20th century came. Looking back at the successes and travails of this great industry, and rich with true stories of whales and whalers, Leviathan tells the most original and exciting history of American whaling in decades.

This is a rare masterpiece that anyone who wants to understand the history of science must read. Through the author's popular yet vivid narrative, we can understand that era when geniuses gathered in droves, understand the connection between science and the modern world, and understand the scientific history of the human world. This is the first time in history that the collective power of the scientific community has been used to find simple mathematical forms that describe the universe. The author believes that the results of their efforts have forever changed the way people view themselves and their status. Combining history and science, this book paints a fascinating portrait of a group of scientists whose answers remain key to our understanding of the world today.

How did the royal families of many empires in Eurasian history carry out hunting activities? What are the location selection, types, management operations, cultural traditions, political imagery, war simulations, and international models of hunting? What is the internal logic between great empires and military activities? This classic work by Thomas Elson will answer one by one questions about royal hunting in ancient dynasties within the space of the Eurasian continent. It is full of storytelling, interest and exploration. The perspective of observation is unique, and it provides an encyclopedic interpretation of the hunting history of the royal families of Eurasia.

This book aims to reveal the basic style of the study of the "Book of Rites" during the Republic of China, and to study the basic issues of the "Book of Rites" based on this. Taking the research content of the "Book of Rites" as the object, it is divided into five parts: introduction, textual research on the "Book of Rites", research on the interpretation of the "Book of Rites", general research on the "Book of Rites", and conclusion.

"Enterprise History Review" is an academic journal edited by the Institute of Enterprise History of China University of Political Science and Law. It covers enterprise history research paradigms, enterprise development and institutional changes, management concepts and business operations, innovation and entrepreneurship, and academic research trends. It reflects the latest results of current domestic and foreign enterprise history research and is an important reference book in the fields of enterprise history and economic history research. This book is a collection of the 2nd and 3rd issues, and includes columns such as "Enterprise History·Theories and Methods", "Enterprise Development·System Change", "Business Strategy·Management Philosophy", "Entrepreneurs·Entrepreneurship", "Enterprise History of the People's Republic of China", and "Academic Research Trends".

In order to promote the in-depth development of domestic research on world environmental history, the European and American History Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (the dominant discipline of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Summit Strategic Plan) invited 9 environmental history experts in 2019 to conduct 10 special lectures focusing on theoretical and practical issues in environmental history research. This book is a record of these special lectures.

This book is the final result of the National Social Science Fund project "Normal Colleges in the Early Republic of China and Modern Social and Cultural Transformation" hosted by the author. The book is divided into five parts, including the evolution of Normal University in the early Republic of China and its historical situation, Normal University in the early Republic of China and the New Culture Movement, Normal University in the early Republic of China and modern social trends of thought, Normal University in the early Republic of China and the New Education Movement, Normal University in the early Republic of China and the construction of new history, etc. Normal schools in the early years of the Republic of China refer to the higher normal schools in the early years of the Republic of China, including Beijing Higher Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, Wuchang Higher Normal School, etc. This group is the product of modern social changes and national will control. The times have given them a special mission to participate in the reconstruction of modern social culture.

This book is an economic history work that explores the relationship between the Grand Canal and the rise and fall of the Tang and Song empires. The work comprehensively analyzes the "Old Book of Tang", "New Book of Tang", "Old History of the Five Dynasties", "New History of the Five Dynasties", "Song History", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Continued Zizhi Tongjian Long Edition" and "Quan Tangwen" Historical materials about the Grand Canal in a large number of historical books such as "Cefu Yuangui" have made a methodical analysis of the causal relationship between the smoothness of the canal and the rise and fall of the empire's national destiny since the Sui Dynasty, and concluded: if the canal is open, the national destiny will prosper; if the canal is blocked, the national destiny will decline. This academic achievement is of great significance to our understanding of the internal connections between China's politics, economy, military, and capital establishment from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty. It also makes a great contribution to the description of the historical process of China's economic center of gravity shifting from the north to the south since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the important role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this process.

This book is based on the order of ancient Chinese dynasties and is divided into eight chapters: Pre-Qin, Qin and Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Song, Liao, Xia and Jin, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty. Each chapter is divided into five parts based on the background of the dynasty, supervisory ideas, supervisory laws, supervisory systems, and supervisory characteristics. It briefly describes the political and social background of each dynasty so that readers have a general understanding of the political and social issues of that period; it expounds the supervisory thought and political thought in ancient China, showing the characteristics of "external Confucianism and internal law"; it analyzes the ancient supervisory regulations and supervisory system, including departmental regulations and guidelines, emperor's orders and edict-style special legislation, supervisory clauses in other national laws and regulations, etc., And details the ancient "one body and four legs" supervisory characteristics.

The content of this book covers many aspects such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. The text is worth reading because it not only introduces the famous masterpieces, but also provides an in-depth explanation of the famous artists behind the masterpieces and the stories behind their creations. The editor pays more attention to the integration of storytelling and interest in reading, so that artists and artworks can be quickly remembered by readers through lifelike stories. Those artworks that have been passed down through the ages are no longer cold pictures. The process of their creation makes readers resonate and love them. Behind great works of art and great artists, they all rely on concentration, enthusiasm, talent and opportunity. We hope that today we live in a way that can also use the achievements of great art in the past to arouse our continued love for beauty today.

The immigration from Heilongjiang at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China was one of the large-scale population movements in Chinese history. It had a huge and far-reaching impact on the historical process of the Heilongjiang Basin. The civilization and cultural characteristics and effects it shaped also had a unique impact on Chinese culture and history. The reason for this is that in terms of time and space, it accompanied and promoted the major transformation of Chinese society - the agricultural era moved towards the industrialization era; the autocratic dynasty moved towards republic; and China began to embrace the world. Experts and scholars in many fields used the same theme, new methods, and new results to initially display a holographic picture of all aspects of society in the Heilongjiang Basin of that era, highlighting the unique status and importance of many fields such as economy, politics, culture, and military. It can be considered that the foreign translation of the book opened a window to the world, showing the civilization of the Heilongjiang Basin and the role it played in the transformation period of Chinese civilization. It can be regarded as one of the milestones in related research fields.

The "Ancient Prose Movement" of the Tang and Song Dynasties was of great significance in the history of literature, thought, and Confucianism. Based on a genealogical review of the framework and paradigm of previous research on the "Ancient Prose Movement", this book highlights "literary literature", keenly grasps the difference between the "Ancient Prose Movement" of the Tang and Song Dynasties and the previous and subsequent literary "movements", and emphasizes the scholar-officials produced by the imperial examination system. The particularity of the society and literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties, which were composed of elites, redefined the ancient prose movement and re-staged its development process. It focused on elucidating propositions such as the relationship between the "ancient prose movement" and New Confucianism, Xian Liang Jinjuan, and Su Che and the "ancient prose movement". It was full of new meanings and had great meanings.

This book is a political history work written by Mr. Huang Yongnian, a famous literary and historical figure, based on a monograph on the history of the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties. The book is divided into fifteen chapters, which systematically discusses the political development and evolution from the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou to Tang Xianzong. The author starts from the internal conflicts and struggles of the ruling group, examines historical materials, determines the historical truth, and explains political phenomena. The whole book has a clear context, many new meanings, and advances the research on many issues, such as the civil-military disputes within the Northern Qi Dynasty, the truth about the Xuanwu Gate Incident in the early Tang Dynasty, the "Li Wu regime" formed after Wu Zetian came to power, the internal and external disputes during the Xuanzong period, the political nature of the Shence Army, etc. It is very enlightening for us to accurately understand the political evolution from the late Northern Dynasties to the mid-Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the author analyzes old historical records and the views of modern scholars around many important issues, puts forward many opinions, and clarifies some basic historical facts.

The Western Regions and the South China Sea were ancient China's traditional exports to the world, and they were also the only way for the world outside the region to transmit information to China. The bustling people and events in the history of Sino-Western cultural exchanges passed through the Western Regions and the South China Sea, opening a thoroughfare for us to admire the traces of civilization. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is a monograph. From the perspective of archeology, art and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, relying on archaeological materials, image materials and documentary materials, it conducts a number of special studies on Buddhism, Sanyi religion, Hinduism, etc. That were popular in the ancient Western Regions and South China Sea. It also includes a discussion of newly discovered archaeological materials and the remains of cave temple statues in other areas. The second part of the book review is an introduction to important relevant literature collection and research works published in recent years, which reflects the author's macroscopic understanding and timely follow-up of the latest achievements in the fields of Silk Road research, Western Region historical archaeological research, and Dunhuang and Turpan research, as well as thoughts on academic principles and methods.

The modern animal protection movement was born in Britain in the 19th century. Animals are widely used for labor, medical experiments, and performances, and they meet people's commercial and entertainment needs. However, in the eyes of protectors, animals are weak and unfairly treated. Opponents and supporters, radicals and conservatives, have launched a century-long struggle. This book tells the story of animal rights activists who actively "appropriate" various traditions - the political tradition that cares about fairness, justice and social liberation, the natural history tradition that recognizes biological diversity, the evolutionary tradition that believes that living things are related, the literary tradition that expresses emotions as animal friends... And then appeals to the public for support. This movement promoted the popularization and legislation of animal protection concepts, and also reflected the evolution of modern British society, culture, and ideological trends.

Elephants appear in every corner of human history and life: mammoths in prehistoric cave paintings in Europe, the fable of "the blind man touching the elephant", expensive ivory products, Roosevelt's elephant hunting legend, elephant performances in circuses... Many rumors about elephants are still unknown to people today. They like to talk about: when they are about to die, they go to the "elephant cemetery" and mourn and cry for the death of their companions; they have no joints, are afraid of mice, and only mate once in their lives... They are regarded as human friends in the zoo, but they also act as killers for keepers from time to time. Humans seem to have an ancient fascination with elephants. However, for thousands of years, we have been fascinated by elephants, thinking that we understand them, but we have ignored that elephants have their own appearance and their own history, and our understanding of them is filled with our history, our identity, and our vision. It turns out that we have been using elephants to understand the world and our place in the world. This book uses a wide range of materials, including municipal documents, museum collections, zoo records, hunters' memoirs, and interviews with people who live with elephants, to explore the origins of many human understandings and concepts about elephants, and to uncover the history of how the image of elephants has been shaped by humans.

"History of Chinese Historiography" is a representative work in the founding period of Chinese historiography. It mainly discusses the emergence of historians, historians, historical books, and the differences between official history and private history; the focus of historiography is on two aspects: writing history and discussing history; two turning points in the way of writing history; the important position of historical materials in the development of historiography, etc.

From threads to shipping containers to e-readers, nearly everything we use has been affected by the standards-setting process. This book traces the global history of standardization, where such standards have been linked to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, from manufacturing to the Internet. The two authors believe that there have been three waves of technological standardization from the 1880s to the present. In the first wave, engineers developed useful standards that could be widely adopted by manufacturers while meeting the needs of the company's customers, spawning a standardization movement that cut across political and ethnic boundaries. One of the results of the second wave is the standardization of containers, which has greatly promoted the development of global trade and the integration of global markets; the core of the third wave is the standardization of information technology, with a new generation of standard setters providing support for the Internet and networks, while using standard-setting procedures to control social and environmental hazards that may arise in an increasingly globalized economy. Drawing on archival material from three continents, the authors explore the positive ideas that gave rise to standardization movements, the attempts to realize them, and the challenges that standardization movements face today. Standards are infrastructure that is almost invisible in today's economy, but has an equally important status as the country and the global market. In today's international situation and the context of global governance, the formulation and promotion of standards, and the battle for standards are closely related to competition and cooperation between countries. This book helps readers understand the history of the past century and the importance of standardization from the perspective of technical rules, and understand the relationship between business, technology and politics.

This volume is a specific regional study. It describes and studies the cartography and map use during the Renaissance in Germany, the Low Countries, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, East-Central Europe, and Russia, as well as the social basis and driving factors for the development of cartography, as well as the role of cartography development in society. The content of this book is informative and extensive. On the one hand, it presents in detail the important figures, map works and map drawing activities in various regions of Europe during the Renaissance, changing the previous narrative model that only focused on a few cartographers and works. At the same time, it also provides a detailed introduction to Ireland, Suzhou and other countries that have rarely been involved in the Chinese world. The history of map drawing and use in the Netherlands, Northern Europe, Hungary, Poland, Russia and other regions is also described and excavated as much as possible. It is of great enlightenment for us to understand the development process of cartography, geography, and even the entire scientific system and society during the European Renaissance in a three-dimensional and multi-dimensional way.

This volume covers the period from 1450 to 1650, which has long been considered an extremely important period in the history of European cartography. The book first introduces the academic circles' discussions and reflections on the concept of "Renaissance" in recent years, and carefully analyzes the continuation and rupture between the maps of this period and the medieval maps, and introduces the role of maps in late medieval society, thus setting the tone for the writing of this volume. This volume discusses maps and Renaissance culture by topic; the drawing of cosmographic, nautical and celestial maps; the visual, mathematical and textual models used for map drawing; the relationship between literature and maps; the production and consumption of technology; maps and their role in national governance during the Renaissance; and finally discusses the history of cartography in Italian countries, Portugal, Spain, etc. As advances in science during the Renaissance, the use of classical mapping techniques, the emergence of new trade routes, and dramatic political and social changes fueled an explosion in map production and use, this volume, unlike other volumes, spends considerable space discussing maps in a variety of contexts and connections, resulting in some innovative interpretive monographs.

This volume focuses on the rise and evolution of cartographic concepts and cartographic practices in the two major civilizations of Islam and South Asia, covering a wide range of types and themes. It is the most comprehensive review of the history of cartography to date. The book is full of information and contains a lot of information. It not only helps readers understand the characteristics, traditions and development of these two civilizations' cartographic activities from their own perspectives, but also lays a solid foundation for in-depth discussions in related academic fields. It also opens up new topics for future cross-cultural comparative research on the history of cartography from a global perspective.

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".

Based on the academic trajectory of research on the political history of the late Qing Dynasty over the past 60 years, this book reviews and summarizes ten thematic historical studies in the political history of the late Qing Dynasty. The ten special histories are: research on the history of the Second Opium War, research on the history of the Second Opium War, research on the history of the Taiping Rebellion, research on the history of the Westernization Movement, research on the history of the Sino-French War, research on the history of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1898, research on the history of the Reform Movement of 1898, research on the history of the Boxer Rebellion, research on the history of the Revolution of 1911, and research on the history of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. This book generally adopts the "problem-centered" academic writing method of subject history, and conducts an academic review of the research on each topic history from both vertical and horizontal dimensions. It not only reveals the process of each topic history in the past 60 years vertically, but also horizontally displays the major academic issues and academic viewpoints in the research on each topic history, in order to achieve the purpose of "distinguishing academic chapters and examining their origins".

In accordance with the internal logic of the evolution of modern Chinese culture, this book adopts a writing strategy that focuses on key areas and takes into account innovative fields. It focuses on the research process, theoretical methods, modern cultural debates, modern cultural trends, modern literature and art history, modern education history, the spread of Western learning to the east and the history of modern academic science and technology, the history of modern newspapers and periodicals, modern sports, health and cultural facilities, and modern cultural history research. 10 Aspects of modern regional cultural history. The final chapter concludes with "The Road to Breakthrough of Social and Cultural History Research". On the basis of discussing the development history of modern Chinese cultural history research and its outstanding achievements, it analyzes the current new challenges faced by the current Chinese modern cultural history, especially the social and cultural history research, and its breakthrough path, providing preliminary opinions on the future development direction of Chinese modern Chinese cultural history research.

The Institute of Japan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was established in May 1981 with the approval of the State Council. It is an academic institution and think tank affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that specializes in the study of contemporary Japanese issues. In order to speed up the construction of the subject system, academic system and discourse system of Japanese studies with Chinese characteristics, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Japan Institute, we have specially organized the leaders of various disciplines of the institute and appropriately recruited experts from outside the institute to systematically review the relevant research results and disciplinary developments in the nine fields of Japanese politics, economy, diplomacy, Sino-Japanese relations, security, society, culture, history and thought in the past 40 years. On the basis of summarizing the development patterns, main characteristics and existing problems of Japanese studies, we look forward to the future development direction. Discipline review is a basic work for discipline construction. I hope this book will be a reference for domestic and foreign international relations academic circles and promote further innovative development of contemporary Japanese studies.

This volume focuses on the spatial cognition of European prehistoric peoples and their ability to transmit cartographic concepts through media such as petroglyphs; surveying, geodesy, and architectural plans in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern cartography; the emergence of theoretical and practical cartographic knowledge in the Greco-Roman world; and the diverse cartographic traditions that coexisted during the medieval period. Moreover, by including cosmographic maps and celestial maps among the research objects, it emphasized the inclusiveness of the definition of "map", thereby getting rid of the traditional narrow research scope that only focused on land maps and nautical charts, and thus influenced the writing of subsequent volumes of the series. In addition, the book begins with "The Development of Maps and the History of Cartography" written by Harry as an introduction to the entire series, and Chapter 21, which serves as the conclusion, discusses the ruptures, cognitive transformations and social background in the development of European maps.

"The History of Cartography of Traditional Societies of East and Southeast Asia" is the second volume of the second volume of the "History of Cartography" series. The Chinese translation of this volume is divided into four parts. The first part first gives a brief summary of Asian prehistoric maps, mainly rock paintings, cosmological maps, and tomb maps; secondly, it is an overall introduction to East Asian cartography, which provides a high-level summary of the scope, terminology, content, academic history, methods and means of East Asian cartography, and the relationship between map images and texts. The second part is the history of Chinese cartography. From the aspects of political culture, measurement, art, and Westernization, it reflects and criticizes the previous research model of Chinese map history that focused on the quantitative end, and proposes a new paradigm for exploring ancient Chinese maps from multiple perspectives starting from the social culture on which they were produced. This part also discusses the ancient Chinese universe schema that has rarely been touched upon by predecessors. The third part is the history of cartography on the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Vietnam. Using time as a clue, it discusses the emergence and development of maps of different scales in various countries, and also analyzes the relevant social and historical background. The fourth part is the history of Southeast Asian cartography, which is divided into three parts: cosmological maps, geographical maps, and nautical maps. Starting from collection and organization, it conducts an in-depth and detailed analysis of the types and cartographic characteristics of the main existing maps in Southeast Asia. This book provides hundreds of rare high-definition pictures of ancient maps in China, more than 40 collection lists of ancient maps from various countries, and more than 100 pages of multilingual references and terminology entries. Excellent research and detailed information make this book a classic study of the history of traditional social cartography in this region to date.

Under the multiple perspectives of "New Historiography", "New Sinology" and "New Song Dynasty", Redology shows different features. To some extent, a history of the development of Redology can be described as a microcosm of Chinese academic history. In the process of "A Dream of Red Mansions" from an academic classic to a literary classic and then to a cultural classic, modern history has played an important role in promoting it. In the history of the development of Red Studies, New Sinology, represented by Hu Shi, used textual criticism methods to lay the basic framework for the development of New Red Studies from the perspective of the author's life experience, editions, etc. The historical materialism of New Historiography attaches great importance to the exploration and exploration of the literary value of "A Dream of Red Mansions" on the basis of inheriting the achievements of New Sinology. The New Song Dynasty is based on the intentional correction of New Sinology in the context of traditional culture. The research on "Dream of Red Mansions" since the new era is guided by Marxism and fully explores the profound cultural heritage contained in "Dream of Red Mansions" as a cultural classic. The development of modern red studies from the perspective of history roughly follows the evolution of Chinese academic culture from tradition to modernity, from Western science to Marxism, and finally to the combination of Marxism and traditional culture.

The political development of Arcadia was full of twists and turns, from the Archaic era to the Hellenistic era, it experienced division, unification, and then division again. In this process, regional powerful states and changes in their relationships played a key role. The confrontation between powerful states led to regional divisions, while the alliance of powerful states led to the establishment of a unified country. At the beginning of the 4th century BC, the Arcadian League was the only unified country in the history of the region. It had an important impact on the situation in the Peloponnese Peninsula and Greece, but it quickly collapsed after only a few years. In the 3rd century BC, the Arcadian states joined the Achaean League and continued to exert political influence until they were incorporated into Rome in the 2nd century BC.

This book is a comprehensive academic work with rich illustrations and texts for professional researchers and the general public. It aims to review and summarize the major achievements made in the past 120 years since the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, including the basic knowledge of oracle bone inscriptions, the oracle bone inscriptions and the civilization of the Shang Dynasty, the discovery and excavation of the oracle bone inscriptions of Yinxu and Zhouyuan, as well as the research and exploration, inheritance and promotion, pioneering and innovation of several generations of scholars. The author cites that with the support of the government, the research results of oracle bone inscriptions have gradually been popularized and popularized, and the physical oracle bone objects and oracle bone calligraphy have gradually entered the public, and then went abroad and to the world. Oracle bone science has become an international knowledge and has begun a new stage of comprehensive and in-depth development and promotion of oracle bone science promoted by the government.

The book is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part focuses on the historical presentation of online literature criticism, and systematically analyzes online literary criticism from the perspectives of text form, criticism subject, and communication methods. The lower part focuses on interpreting the critical concepts, critical standards, critical functions, and critical influence of online literature through critical theory. At the same time, the introduction of this book emphasizes that Internet literature must be included in the history of orthodox literature, and the conclusion further explores the criticism of Internet literature. For the study of contemporary Chinese Internet literature, criticism is an indispensable link. Professor Ouyang Youquan has been engaged in Internet literature research for a long time and is an authoritative research authority on Internet literature in today's academic circles.

This book reviews the development of Dunhuang studies in China in four stages. The first stage is divided into two periods with 1930 as the boundary. That is, the first period was from 1909 to 1930, which was the period when Dunhuang studies emerged. The establishment of the People's Republic of China from 1931 to 1949 was the second period, which was characterized by a great increase in the Dunhuang documents that Chinese scholars had access to, and the research field also gradually expanded. The second stage (1949 to 1978) was divided into two periods starting from the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966. In the former period, the focus of research was on the mainland, while in the latter period, the focus of research shifted to Hong Kong and Taiwan. The third stage from the reform and opening up in 1978 to 2000 was a period of rapid development of Dunhuang studies in my country. Chinese scholars gradually changed the situation of "Dunhuang in China and Dunhuang studies in Japan" and finally took the lead and voice in international Dunhuang studies. The fourth stage (2001 to 2019) is the stage when my country's Dunhuang studies begin to transform. While continuing traditional topics, traditional methods, and paradigms, Chinese scholars began to explore new paradigms and new perspectives to open up new fields of Dunhuang studies. This book is written in the style of academic history, trying to analyze the achievements, characteristics and shortcomings of the works involved, and trying to show the status of the works involved in the relevant research process and academic context.

This book systematically sorts out the research results of mainland scholars on China's modern social history from the mid-1980s to 2015, and briefly reviews the previous related academic sources. This book reviews basic issues such as theories and methods, paradigms and perspectives, academic schools and styles in the study of modern Chinese social history, and analyzes the characteristics and trends of the discipline at different stages of development. It also describes the research status of modern China's population and family, gender and marriage, social groups and groups, urban and rural and regional societies, social issues and social governance, social life, mass leisure and entertainment, Chinese religion and folk beliefs, and analyzes its gains and losses.

This book is a phased result of the National Social Science Foundation's major project "Translation and Research of the "History of Russian Literature" by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR". It consists of 32 papers written by Wang Jiezhi, the chief expert of the project, the leaders of the five sub-projects of the project, and members of the research team. The content mainly includes the academic significance of translating the "History of Russian Literature" by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Russian The academic process of compiling the history of Russian literature in Soviet academic circles, the basic ideas for compiling the history of Russian literature, the historical investigation of the relationship between Russian literature and the process of national modernization, the study of the works of classic Russian literary writers, the acceptance and interpretation of Russian literature in China, etc., Generally show the innovative consciousness of reinterpreting Russian literature and literary history. This book has important reference and reference significance that cannot be ignored for the updating of domestic academic literature and literary history research concepts and the optimization of research methods, and for promoting the study of foreign national literature, comparative literature and world literature, and the construction of a discourse system in the entire field of literary research.

Bamboo slip studies is an important discipline created in the 20th century and has achieved fruitful results. The large number of bamboo slips and silks discovered over the past century have made up for the shortcomings and deficiencies of handed down documents and corrected the misremembering or falsification of handed down documents. They are important materials for studying ancient Chinese political history, legal history, economic history, military history, as well as linguistics, philology, philosophy, medicine, geography and even astronomy. They have greatly promoted the development of various disciplines in China. This book comprehensively displays an overview of the bamboo slips and silk scrolls unearthed over the past century, including the location, quantity, shape, main content, etc., And analyzes the various laws contained in the bamboo slips themselves, including the laws of material application, the evolution of characters, the use of symbols, the rules of codification forms, the rules of classification of classics and documents, and basic common sense of collection and protection.

This book focuses on the handicraft industry and handicraft product market in the northwest region during the Qing Dynasty. This book takes the handicraft industry as a clue and explains the industry development level of Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Gansu and other places from 1644 to 1840 from the fields of textile, food processing, mineral processing, wood processing and other handicraft industries. On the other hand, the market in this book specifically refers to the market for trading handicraft goods, which is part of the traditional market. Therefore, the scope of the market discussed in this book is smaller than that of the general market. From the perspective of discussion, it mainly starts from the two aspects of merchants and towns. This book summarizes the results of past discussions on the history of northwest handicraft industry in the early Qing Dynasty, and supplements and modifies some viewpoints to provide certain help for studying the economic history of northwest China in the Qing Dynasty, especially the history of handicraft industry.

"40 Years of Chinese History (1978-2018)" invites scholars from various relevant disciplines to discuss the overview and current situation of the development of Chinese history in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, and to look forward to its prospects and trends. The content covers Chinese archeology, ancient Chinese history, modern Chinese history, modern Chinese history, as well as Chinese local history, ethnic history, border history, historical geography, economic history, social history, ideological and cultural history, history of history, historical theory, urban history, religious history, world history, the history of World War II, etc., And provides a relatively complete overview of the development and changes of Chinese history over the past 40 years. The authors of "40 Years of Chinese History (1978-2018)" are academic leaders and famous scholars in various branches of history in the field of history. They have high academic standards and authority. This makes "40 Years of Chinese History (1978-2018)" a must-read reference book for researching and learning history.

In the seventy years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, literary and artistic theory has played an extremely important role in the social and cultural life of the Chinese people in different historical periods. From the influence of some literary and artistic debates on the political trends of the time in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, to the situation in which literature and art entered the core area of ​​the ideological and cultural field during the "Cultural Revolution", to the great significance of literature and art in promoting ideological transformation in the early days of reform and opening up, to the role of literature and art research in the construction of contemporary society and culture in the first decade of the new century, this book has carefully studied everything. The characteristic of this book is that the author does not focus mainly on the description of the historical process of the seventy years, but uses the issues as the outline and selects the central issues of the literary and art debates in the past seventy years for special discussions. He strives to use the theory to bring history and to see the history, and goes deep into the internal affairs of these debates to sort out the data and put forward his own opinions. Therefore, this book not only records the history of literary theory over the past seventy years, but more importantly, learns the new by reviewing the past and puts forward constructive opinions and ideas for the construction of new literary theory in the new era.

This book is a revised version of "Contemporary Chinese Foreign Literature Research", with added content from 2009 to 2019. Looking at the study of foreign literature in the seventy years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are two main facts: first, the Soviet model was basically followed in the first seventeen years, but Western literature and cultural traditions were somewhat partial; second, in the last forty years, the "things were reversed", and the large influx of Western literature hit the Chinese literary world unprecedentedly, and provided some kind of leading role in emancipating the mind and bringing order to chaos; without foreign literary theories suddenly appearing around us, Chinese literature would not have been able to quickly cross the boundaries of traditional politics and aesthetics and achieve extensive and profound transformations. However, foreign literary research in this latter period obviously switched to the Western model, thereby somewhat abandoning some of the fine traditions and academic paradigms that should have been adhered to. Of course, this is a big-picture approach to scanning. The specifics are much more complex.