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On the fourth day of November in the 18th year of Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor issued an edict and solemnly announced the good news to the world that the construction of Beijing was completed. We regard this day as the birthday of the city of Beijing and the palace of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty. According to the Gregorian calendar, it is December 8, 1420. It will be six hundred years ago in 2020. During the long period of ten years, the capital of the Ming Dynasty and its core palace buildings were later naturally accepted by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty as their own capital and Forbidden City. To commemorate this 600-year-old great ancient architectural complex, Mr. Jin Hongkui, an ancient architect and former deputy director of the Forbidden City, wrote the book "Six Hundred Years of Construction of the Forbidden City" to let readers understand the long construction history from the city's founding in the Yuan and Ming dynasties to the completion of the palace. This book is an introductory book on Forbidden City architecture written by professional scholars for readers, and it has a good balance between academic and popularization.

The gorgeous Chinese silk, as beautiful as the rainbow in the sky, has continued to develop and spread for thousands of years; it has benefited the people of the country and the best. Based on archaeological data and documentary records, as well as recent new research results of foreign scholars, this book systematically discusses the emergence and development of sericulture and silk weaving in China and the continuous innovation process of its technology. It introduces the Sino-Western transportation and the Silk Road in the pre-Qin era and the spread of sericulture and silk weaving technology and sericulture technology in my country under this background, which is of great historical data and historical value.

The study of modern Chinese history is a historical branch discipline that has developed rapidly and made remarkable achievements after seventy years of exploration and innovation after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the form of a combination of overview and special topics, this book systematically reviews the process and progress of research on modern Chinese history over the past seventy years. It focuses on the main achievements in this research field, different representative academic views and the main basis for them. It realistically evaluates the successes and failures in previous research, and looks forward to future prospects as appropriate. This book has important reference value for studying and researching modern Chinese history.

Perry Allison's grand European history series includes "The Transition from Antiquity to Feudal Society", "The Genealogy of Absolutist States", and "The New Old World". "The New Old World" is a masterpiece that directly addresses the core issues of European integration. It is also an essential reference book for researchers of the EU and European history. This book summarizes the origin, process and outcome of the European integration process in several core countries on the European continent since World War II; it also provides a detailed analysis of the political and cultural background of the formation of the common market in the three core countries of the European Union (Germany, France, and Italy). It also discusses many "Eastern issues" related to the interconnected issues between Turkey and Cyprus, traces the theoretical research and practical summary of European integration from the Enlightenment to the present, and looks forward to the future prospects of the European Union. "The Genealogy of Absolutist Countries" introduces the absolutist countries in Eastern and Western Europe: Spain, France, Prussia, Poland, etc., And attempts to reveal their different roles in the process of transformation to capitalism through a comparative study of the nature and development of absolutist countries in Europe. In the author's view, absolutism is a uniquely European phenomenon and is essentially still based on the aristocratic form of political power. However, capitalism in Western and Eastern European countries each has different historical characteristics and development trajectories, which lead to different development results. "The Transition from Antiquity to Feudalism" covers the evolution of European production methods, social structures and state forms in the long historical period from the formation of the ancient Greek slave state in the 8th century BC to the crisis of European feudalism in the 15th century AD.

This book contains more than 20 academic papers by some young scholars on the history of transportation in ancient China, all of which are close to the academic frontier. They mostly use newly unearthed materials to discuss difficult academic issues, experiment with new methods, and put forward new insights. The discussion can promote the study of ancient Chinese transportation history and is also beneficial to deepening the comprehensive understanding of ancient Chinese social culture.

In today's international situation of "globalization", cultural awareness and cultural strategy have become increasingly prominent, and religious studies are one of the most important fields in cultural development, cultural construction and cultural exchanges. Religious studies, like other disciplines, is affected by historical changes and external environment, and has different stages of development. In addition, it has its own particularities due to its complex background, difficult positioning, broad field, and sensitive issues. As a discipline that is still forming, looking back on the past and looking forward to the future is both an academic consciousness and a social responsibility. "Contemporary Chinese Religious Studies (1949-2019)" aims to summarize and sort out the thoughts, achievements and shortcomings of contemporary Chinese scholars in religious studies, so as to grasp the focus and characteristics of the seventy-year research process of contemporary Chinese religious studies, thereby laying a solid foundation and making the discipline of religious studies more prosperous and more promising in the future. It is worth mentioning that this book is written by famous scholars in various fields of religion and professionals who specialize in related research. Due to different perspectives and different awareness of issues, it reflects the distinctive characteristics of a hundred flowers blooming, which also creates the effect of exchange of ideas and increases the readability of the work.

This book objectively describes the emergence, development, rise and fall of the remonstrance system from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. It also analyzes relevant major remonstration events and remonstrance figures, summarizes its rules, characteristics, functions, gains and losses, and conducts an in-depth discussion of ancient remonstration thought, especially Confucian remonstrance thought. It can be clearly seen that if the monarch is good at accepting advice and has a smooth way of speaking, then the politics will be clear and the country will be prosperous. On the contrary, if the way of speech is blocked and the monarch acts arbitrarily, it will lead to political chaos and the decline of the country.

The manuscript collects banknotes of the commercial banks of the Republic of China from January 1912 to September 1949, including banknotes of the Commercial Savings Bank, Bank of China Agricultural and Industrial Bank, banknotes of specialized banks, banknotes of Overseas Chinese Bank, and banknotes of foreign banks in China. Circulation coupons, unused coupons, sample coupons, trial printing coupons, invalidated coupons, etc. Issued by six types of banks, including currency, Sino-foreign joint bank banknotes, etc., As well as exchange coupons, depositary checks, bonds, gold deposit coupons, etc. Used for circulation; promissory notes may be included. The entries are sorted by the time when the bank was established or opened, and by the year of the note. If the banknotes have the same name and the same year, the main currency is in the front and the minor currency is in the back. They are arranged in ascending order of denomination, and the undated banknotes are listed at the end.

"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 aims to conduct an academic review of the development trajectory and achievements of the discipline of historical materials in modern Chinese history in the 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It focuses on sorting out and introducing the historical materials results on modern Chinese history published in mainland China in the past 60 years. It also appropriately introduces and comments on the formation and theoretical research results of the historical materials discipline system of modern Chinese history. The structure of this book adopts a combination of "staged" and "consistent" methods. It not only introduces the establishment and development of historiography in modern Chinese history, but also adopts a combination of historical material content and historical material categories to specifically introduce the content of published historical materials and their role in promoting the development of academic research. There are special historical material introductions such as the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Revolution of 1911, the Chinese Revolution, and the Anti-Japanese War, as well as special topics on the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China that are narrated in sections.

Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co., Ltd. (Referred to as "Yangchang Petroleum") is affiliated to the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government. It is one of the four companies in China with oil and natural gas exploration and development qualifications. It is also a large-scale energy and chemical enterprise that integrates comprehensive development, in-depth conversion, and efficient utilization of various resources such as oil, natural gas, coal, and rock salt. This book is the 2017 Yearbook of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group Co., Ltd. "Yanchang Oilfield Co., Ltd. Yearbook·2017" is compiled by the book editing committee with rich experience in yearbook compilation. It comprehensively displays Yanchang Oil's brilliant achievements and company development since 2016 from all aspects.

This book is an important medieval urban history work by Belgian historian Henri Pirena. First published in English in the United States in 1925. The origin of medieval cities attracted great attention from Western historians in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and many theories were proposed: such as "Roman City Theory", "Hereditary Territory Theory", "Mark Theory", "Castle Theory" and "Market Theory". Henri Pirenne combined the "castle theory" with the "market theory" and believed that cities were settlements where merchants gathered around fortified locations - towns and castles - to establish a family, which was quite influential.

This set of books includes: "History of War" and "History of War Part Two". Volumes 5 to 8 of "History of War (Set Volume 1 and 2)" are commonly referred to as "History of the Gothic War" in historian circles. This part was translated from Russian by Cui Miaoyin as early as the late 1950s. This book was included in the first batch of topics introduced by People's Publishing House and Sanlian Bookstore to introduce world social science masterpieces from 1956 to 1962. The first draft of the topic was drafted by the editorial department based on the opinions of experts and scholars from various universities and academic institutions in Beijing at that time. It was a troubled time when the translation manuscript was submitted to the editorial department of the Commercial Press. Due to well-known reasons, it was shelved before it could be processed.

This is a brief history of American higher education in a story. The author uses some important events in the history of American higher education as the starting point, using the events as the warp and the time as the latitude. Through telling each story, he reveals the inner logic and experience of why the United States has become a powerful country in higher education. As the author said: The evolution of American universities does not actually have a pre-planned draft, nor does it follow any imaginary logic for linear extension. On the contrary, the occurrence of many historical events, including those that have a profound impact on today's universities, often occurs with some chance. These seemingly accidental events were often the result of many social forces at that time wrestling with each other according to their own wishes. In other words, American universities are full of entanglements, troubles and even pain during their growth. From schools, professors, and students to governments, enterprises, and countries, there is no shortage of problems inside and outside universities-some with solutions, and some without solutions. It is these growing pains that constitute a living history of American universities.

Ningbo Huamei Hospital is a modern Western hospital in Ningbo and Zhejiang. It is also a Western hospital established by foreigners in China after the Opium War. It is one of the Western hospitals with a long history in China. The hospital originated from the Western medicine clinic opened by American Baptist missionary Dr. Daniel Jerome Macgowan (1814-1893) in Ningbo in November 1843. It was taken over by the Ningbo Municipal People's Government in 1951. In 1954, it was renamed Ningbo Second Hospital, which continues to this day. The hospital spans three centuries and has a history of 175 years. It can be said that it has gone through many vicissitudes of life.

The United States' Declaration of Independence is one of the most important historical documents in modern world history. On the one hand, the book "On" examines the process of drafting, revising and finalizing the words and sentences of the Declaration of Independence, showing in detail how a political text gradually takes shape in the process of alteration and alteration; on the other hand, it analyzes its theoretical basis and literary characteristics, focusing on the most important basic theory of modern Western political thought - the theory of natural rights. The text of the book is witty and beautiful, and the theoretical explanations are vivid and insightful.

The eight years of the reign of Mingzong Li Siyuan of the Later Tang Dynasty were praised as "moderately prosperous", which was especially rare in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties. As a biography of Li Siyuan, this book is dedicated to interpreting Li Siyuan's political achievements based on basic historical facts. The structure is based on chronology and topics: the first and second chapters describe Mingzong's growth background and path to kingship; the third and fourth chapters are based on chronology and emphasize the political evolution process during the eight years of Mingzong's rule; the fifth and sixth chapters adopt a topical structure. Different from previous similar works that mainly emphasize the influence of Han political culture on Shatuo, this book pays more attention to the political legacy left by Shatuo to later generations of China.

Ancient paintings are classical-themed paintings that cover history, old news, allusions, legends, poetry and other historical elements, and have plot content and ancient meanings. Character paintings are the mainstay of Fu Baoshi's painting art. According to the title of the paintings, they can be divided into six series: "Eastern Jin and Six Dynasties", "Ming and Qing Dynasties", literati and painting history stories, Qu Yuan and "Chu Ci", Tang and Song poetry and others. These paintings are mostly based on the elegant deeds of famous sages from past dynasties, conveying the sincere elegance, depth and extraordinary joyful embrace. This book unearths Fu Baoshi's thoughts and feelings in his creations at a specific period, and discusses Fu Baoshi as a scholar and literati who transcends the identity of a simple painter in the context of Chinese intellectual history, academic history and literati spiritual pedigree in the 20th century, in order to highlight his spiritual outlook and ideological significance.

Han portrait stones are regarded as encyclopedias of Han Dynasty society. Mr. Jian Bozan once said that if the images of the real life of the Han people solidified in the Han Dynasty stone carvings and other arts were organically organized, the history of the Han Dynasty "will stand out in front of us and appear as a three-dimensional image." "Stories of Han Painting: Memories Engraved on Stone" adheres to Professor Zhang Daoyi's consistent style of making the profound into the simple. It selects more than 600 pictures of stone portraits from the Han Dynasty and divides the pictures of various colors into three categories: characters and secular, myths and legends, and auspiciousness and entertainment. Through the interpretation of the sources, images, plots, texts, etc., It leads us to the historical scene more than 1,800 years ago, to experience the social customs of the Han Dynasty up close, and to understand the traditions carved on the stones. By reading this book, you can not only appreciate the beauty of art, but also learn about ancient history and culture.

This book is a work that comprehensively presents the circulation of banknotes in Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The turmoil and chaos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were most directly reflected in the field of banknote issuance - the inconsistency of issuing institutions and the complexity of banknote types. Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai were no exception. At the national level, the "four major banks": the Central Bank, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, and Agricultural Bank of China issue banknotes in Gansu, Ningxia, and Qingdu. Various local banks, such as Gansu Provincial Bank, Ningxia Bank, and Qinghai Industrial Bank, can also issue banknotes with approval. Many banks, banks, pawn shops and other private financial institutions can also issue their own money tickets and private notes, and have considerable influence in small areas. This book is dedicated to sorting out, classifying and introducing in detail these various modern Ganningqing banknotes. The banknotes issued by the national banks, local banks and private financial institutions in the three provinces and regions are collected as completely as possible, classified according to the issuing institutions or banknote attributes, and the full picture is presented based on time. This book records a large number of banknote plates. At the same time, it also pays attention to many banknote derivatives that were often ignored in the past, such as licenses, promissory notes, bonds, treasury certificates, deeds, etc. There are a total of 1,221 plates, each of which is marked with the face size and rarity level. In addition to describing the plates, this book also briefly introduces the background of each type of banknotes when introducing them, sorting out the historical evolution of their issuing institutions, tracing back to the origin of the issuance of banknotes, and paying equal attention to description and research. These combing and compilation provide historical currency researchers and enthusiasts, financial historians, and coin collectors with as complete information as possible when studying modern local banknotes, filling the gaps in the study of local banknotes in the Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai regions.

"Hanshu·Yiwenzhi·Six Arts Briefs" is based on the Six Arts Book Records of the Secret House of the Western Han Dynasty studied by Liu Xiang, which is the central part of the catalog system of "Hanshu". This is the earliest catalog of works on the six arts and an outline document of early academic history. This book is a collection of the author's daily reading and research on "Hanshu·Yiwenzhi·Six Art Briefs". It is intended to examine the evolution of books from the perspective of academic history. It can be seen as a history of books written with annotations and notes. Among them is a personal study, which also adopts the opinions of predecessors. The examination and debate are designed according to needs and are not troublesome. They should be helpful to our in-depth understanding of "Six Arts" and the history of early books.

Human origin and evolution are the most important events on Earth in the past 1 million years. The book tells the story of the East African apes who first came from the forests to the plains and began living upright, and then evolved into more than a dozen different species of Homo erectus, until the direct ancestors of modern humans evolved in the last 100,000 years or so. After modern humans evolved, they left Africa and dispersed around the world. During this period, they interacted with the most ferocious animals and human relatives on the earth, as well as the glacial climate, and performed the most exciting stories. The greatest features of this book are the complete narrative, luxurious pictures, and concise writing. It is more professional and authoritative than the most popular "Human Stories" by Van Rooster on the domestic market, and the pictures are more beautiful and accurate.

This book is the research result of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Project of the Ministry of Education. The book contains a total of 140,000 words and more than 300 precious image historical materials and photos. It adopts a research method of classifying and systematically discussing time evolution as the main axis. Chapter 12 discusses the development and characteristics of ancient social environment design and construction. Chapters 3 to 5 elaborate on the three major urban spaces, residential spaces and garden environments, and summarize the spatial and artistic characteristics of gardening. Chapter 7 explores four different scales and types of design experience in cities, parkways, campuses, and neighborhoods. Chapter 8 summarizes and summarizes the history of Japanese environmental design

This book is the research result of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Project of the Ministry of Education. The book contains a total of 140,000 words and more than 300 precious image historical materials and photos. It adopts a research method of classifying and systematically discussing time evolution as the main axis. Chapter 12 discusses the development and characteristics of ancient social environment design and construction. Chapters 3 to 5 elaborate on the three major urban spaces, residential spaces and garden environments, and summarize the spatial and artistic characteristics of gardening. Chapter 7 explores four different scales and types of design experience in cities, parkways, campuses, and neighborhoods. Chapter 8 summarizes and summarizes the history of Japanese environmental design.

Shen Weirong, born in 1962, is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Nanjing University and a doctorate from the Department of Central Asian Languages ​​and Cultures of the University of Bonn in Germany. He is currently a Chang Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. His research fields include Western languages ​​and history, especially comparative studies of Tibetan history, Tibetan Buddhism and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism. He has successively served as a co-researcher at the Department of Indian Sanskrit Studies at Harvard University, an acting professor at the Department of Central Asia at Humboldt University in Germany, a foreign co-researcher at the Department of Literature at Kyoto University in Japan, a visiting professor at the Institute of History and Linguistics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany. He once served as the deputy dean of the School of Chinese Studies and the deputy dean of the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion at Renmin University of China. His representative works include "Philosophical Research on the History of Tibetan Buddhism", "Searching for Shangri-La", "Imagining Tibet: Monks, Living Buddhas, Lamas and Esoteric Buddhism from a Cross-Cultural Perspective", "Text and History: The Formation of Historical Narratives of Tibetan Buddhism and the Construction of Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies", "The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Regions and the Central Plains - Preliminary Study of "Mahayana Essentials", etc.

This book is the compiled version of the first volume of Mr. Lu Simian's famous work "General History of China by Lu". It systematically describes the origin and evolution of marriage, clan system, political system, official system, taxation, military system, criminal law, food, clothing, housing and transportation, education, religion, culture and academics in ancient Chinese society in many categories. Mr. Lu Simian uses a historian's perspective to provide a comprehensive explanation of each theme, with many unique insights. Mr. Gu Jiegang therefore commented on this book: "It describes cultural phenomena in categories, and includes discussions in the narrative. It criticizes China's culture and system purely from the standpoint of social science, and there are many groundbreaking new theories."

The book "Ping-Han Railway and the Economic Development of North China (1905-1937)" is divided into six chapters, which mainly discusses the operation of the Ping-Han Railway from 1905 to 1937 and its role in promoting the development of commerce, agriculture, industry and mining in North China. This book was published by the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica in Taipei in 1987 and was included in the institute's special issue No. 55. In this publication, the author has added the article "Crossing the Boundaries-The Current Situation and Prospects of Research on China's Railway History".

"Research on the Management of Modern China's Railway Industry - Analysis of the Political Level (1876-1937)" is an early work by Taiwanese scholar Zhang Ruide. It was published by the Institute of Modern History of the "Academia Sinica" in Taipei in 1991 and was included in the institute's special issue (No. 63). This book is divided into five chapters, starting from the political environment and exploring the organizational operations, personnel management and other related issues of the railway industry from 1876 to 1937 from the perspective of internal management. In this publication, the author has added the article "Crossing the Boundaries-The Current Situation and Prospects of Research on China's Railway History".

How did the ancients face the plague? Is the miasma real or just a figment of the human mind? What was the doctor-patient relationship like in ancient times? Did they also have doctor-patient conflicts? Professor Yu Gengzhe has long been committed to the study of the medical social history of medieval China. He believes that "diseases have a greater long-term impact on human history than many factors" and "when exploring the basic laws of people, society and even human nature, medical treatment and diseases are an excellent window." Crawling through and organizing, analyzing actual cases, exploring the relationship between disease and people's hearts, medical treatment and society, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, trying to discover the historical facts hidden behind the text, and providing an idea to try to pull traditional medicine back from the shackles of "science or superstition" and restore the original appearance of ancient Chinese medicine. Its entry points include the review and outlook of medical history research, the shaping of the image of doctors, and the discussion of the doctor-patient relationship. It also considers issues such as the ancient health system, the thinking model of causing and treating plague, the impact of sexually transmitted diseases on brothel culture, and the medical culture behind the tomb murals of the Song Dynasty.

The Tang and Song Dynasties were a period of formation and development of the group of defeated scholars. The formation process, commonalities and characteristics of the group gradually emerged, and their living conditions, relationship with the political power, and status and role in society were initially finalized. This is the source of studying the defeated groups in history. Paying attention to the defeated groups is an important extension and supplement to the study of the imperial examination system, and is an important link in the study of the imperial examination. This book takes the group of fallen scholars in the Tang and Song Dynasties as the research object. It is divided into ten chapters. It quantitatively analyzes the size of the group and evaluates its overall strength. It also analyzes their living conditions, social future, social status, development trends, existing problems and their relationship with society and the government. The purpose is to summarize some internal laws and experiences worth learning from. It also discusses the problems of failed groups from the institutional level and summarizes the problems existing in the imperial examination system to make up for the shortcomings of imperial examination research. There are eleven related tables in the appendix at the back of the book, including "List of Imperial Examination Admissions in the Tang Dynasty" for easy reference.

Fei Shu in the Song Dynasty compiled the deeds of 112 people from the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Tang Dynasty who were upright officials, made contributions to the country, and implemented benevolent policies for the people from the historical records of the past dynasties, and compiled it into the book "Biography of Integrity Officials". In the Ming Dynasty, Huang Ruheng added 133 people from before the Five Dynasties on the basis of Fei Shu, and added 64 people from the Song and Yuan dynasties. It mainly describes how they cultivated their ethics and governed for the people. Huang Ruheng rated these historical figures into three categories: upper, middle and lower. He also added his own brief comments at the end of each honest official's deeds. With a few words or at most a few crosses, point out why the character is worthy of emulation or where he appears to be intolerant and inadequate.

Ancient Chinese science and technology was dazzling, with many brilliant inventions and creations in various fields such as mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, etc. This book uses specific scientific and technological issues and phenomena as the entry point, using a question-and-answer format to introduce ancient Chinese scientific and technological knowledge, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, geography, mining and metallurgy, military, transportation, water conservancy, architecture, agriculture, medicine, etc. It is a popular encyclopedia about ancient Chinese science and technology that explains things in simple terms, with pictures and texts.

This book is one of Lovejoy's representative works. It is a collection of representative papers in which the theory of the history of ideas advocated by the author is applied to specific research on the history of ideas. In the book, the author further explores concepts such as romanticism, evolutionism, naturalism, and archaism. This collection of essays covers many fields such as the history of thought, philosophy, literature, history and even gardening art. It has a wide range of topics and complex citations, which fully reflects the author's sharp critical spirit and academic characteristics of exploring "comprehensibility" in a diverse world.

Mr. Lu Xun's "A Brief History of Chinese Novels" is a pioneering work in the history of Chinese novels and a foundational work. It was first published in the 1920s. Since its publication, it has been highly praised by the academic community for its rich and detailed information and rigorous and incisive judgments. It has been regarded as a classic work on the history of Chinese popular literature together with Wang Guowei's "History of Song and Yuan Opera". For nearly ninety years now, scholars who study the history of Chinese novels still use it as a major reference book.

This book is the first book in the "Sorturing History" book series. It sorts out a fragment of history, opens the closet of history, and tells the story of China's five thousand years of long culture from multiple perspectives: politics, economy, society, aesthetics, and art. The book starts with the details and is divided into two parts: canon and fashion. It tells the essence and evolution of ancient Chinese costumes through five chapters: Emperor Mianfu, Fengguanxiapei, Officials' Replenishment Clothing, Tang Women's Clothing, and Modern Cheongsam.

The death penalty is the oldest punishment among all punishments in human society. "The Death Penalty: Origin, History and Its Victims" is a book summarizing the history of the death penalty written by German scholar Carl Bruno Leder. The German version was first published in 1980. It has been frequently cited in the nearly 40 years since its publication and has had a great influence. In the book, Carl Bruno Leder explores the different origins of the death penalty by citing rich historical materials, and discusses the history of the death penalty and various specific execution methods for thousands of years from ancient times to modern times. By analyzing different sociological and psychological perspectives, he demonstrates the social function of the death penalty in a detailed argument. Finally, the arguments for and against the death penalty are contrasted and new ideas are presented that clearly justify opposition to the death penalty.

This book is the integration of many research results of Professor Li Lifeng. The author is mainly engaged in research on Chinese revolution and Chinese politics, political theory, and conceptual history. The manuscript published this time mainly includes three parts: "Vision and Methods", "Knowledge and Institutions", and "Revolution and Governance". It contains nearly 20 research articles published by the author over the years, showing the author's research system and has important academic value.

Based on a historical perspective, this book takes the basic sentence categories of Chinese (questions, imperatives, causatives, exclamations, comparative sentences, analogical sentences, etc.) As the object of investigation, and focuses on the semantic characteristics and pragmatic functions of sentences. It aims to highlight the typicality and inheritance of the Chinese sentence category system through the description and summary of the development process of basic sentence categories, and to extract the development motivation, evolution trajectory and operating mechanism of the Chinese sentence category system.

Mr. Sun Changwu's book "Northern Peoples and Buddhism in Ancient China" focuses on the Buddhist policies and development of Buddhism of the regimes established by the northern tribes in the history of my country, including the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern Wei, Xixia, Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Qing, as well as the role of Buddhism in cultural exchanges and ethnic integration. It highlights the basis and motivation that Buddhism provides for ethnic equality, ethnic exchanges, and ethnic integration from many levels of theory and practice.

Sichuan Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded by the Sichuan military government in 1912. It is the provincial Chinese studies institution with the purpose of "promoting Chinese studies and carrying forward the quintessence of Chinese culture". Wu Zhiying is appointed as the president, and Liu Shipei and Xie Wuliang are the vice presidents. Its members include Lou Liran, Zeng Xuechuan, Liao Ping, Zeng Ying, Li Yaoxun, Yang Zanxiang and other famous Confucian scholars. In 1927, it was merged into Sichuan University. In the past 15 years, it has always been called "Chinese Studies" and it was an important center for Chinese studies teaching and research in China at that time. After the rise of the Chinese Studies movement in the early 20th century, Sichuan Chinese Academy of Sciences was the first large-scale academic institution named after "Chinese Studies". It was also the first in the country to establish a Chinese Academy of Sciences with the help of the government, and it was also very unique in the entire century-old history of the Chinese Studies movement. Sichuan Chinese Academy of Sciences is one of the earliest large-scale academic institutions in modern times. It has many functions such as teaching, research, publishing, and dissemination. The series of fruitful academic work it has carried out and its exploration in Chinese studies education are all of great value. Sichuan Chinese Academy of Sciences is also an important position in promoting the revival of Shu studies, and has trained students all over Sichuan. Among them, Meng Wentong, Xiang Zonglu, Peng Yunsheng, Li Yuancheng, etc. Had a great influence on the subsequent academic development of Sichuan. This work can deepen readers' understanding of modern culture. The author uses a large amount of archival materials, many of which are made public for the first time.

This book takes the connection between Zheng He's voyage and the joint construction of the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" as the main line, and incisively explains the social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological foundation of Zheng He's voyage at home and abroad, and its relationship with the creation and development of the human maritime century, thus providing us with very important contemporary enlightenment.

Energy issues are the fundamental issues of human society. If you understand the history of energy, you will also understand the history of mankind. Energy can cause wars, but it can also promote international cooperation; energy can lead to industrial revolutions, but it can also cause economic crises; energy can promote the development of science and technology, and can also cause environmental damage... The masterpiece of Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a nuclear energy expert! Open this book and see how energy dominates human society in terms of politics, economy, science and technology. Coal, oil, electricity and other energy sources have accelerated the process of industrialization and urbanization, and have also caused over-exploitation, energy depletion, coal pollution, greenhouse effect, and nuclear leakage... The knowledge is professional, the text is easy to understand, and there are 109 exquisite illustrations. It has been called "professional history" and "a masterpiece of popular science" by Kirkus Reviews!

China's traditional overseas trade refers to China's commodity exchange activities with foreign countries via sea routes from the Qin and Han Dynasties to before the Opium War in 1840. This book is divided into five periods in chronological order: Qin and Han Dynasties, Jin to Tang Dynasty, Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty, and explains the process of the occurrence, development, prosperity, and decline of my country's traditional overseas trade.

This book systematically introduces the philosophical spirit of traditional Chinese maritime culture in order to essentially reflect the characteristics and profound causes of traditional maritime culture. Traditional Chinese ocean philosophy should be an organic view of the ocean, and its root is an organic view of nature. It focuses more on the study of the integrity and spontaneity of things, as well as the coordination and synergy within and between things. At the same time, traditional Chinese marine philosophy is not just a product of speculation. Its formation is fundamentally based on the survival and development needs of coastal residents for thousands of years.

The author has both family and country feelings and profound academic background. Through the analysis of Chinese and foreign documents, archaeological discoveries, etc., He comprehensively and systematically combed the history of my country's discovery, development and management of the South China Sea Islands and related waters. With conclusive and sufficient historical facts and legal basis, he refuted the unreasonable claims of Vietnam and other countries for sovereignty over the South China Sea and confirmed that China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands and their adjacent waters. The book has clear views, detailed information and sufficient arguments. It is a masterpiece of historical geography.

The Chinese nation is the oldest nation in the world, and the Chinese civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. China's written history is nearly 5,000 years old. Starting from 841 BC, there have been almost 3,000 years of documented chronicles, which is unique in the long history of mankind. Among the four major ancient civilizations in the world, only China's history has always been passed down in an orderly manner and has never been interrupted.

The Chinese nation is the oldest nation in the world, and the Chinese civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. China's written history is nearly 5,000 years old. Starting from 841 BC, there have been almost 3,000 years of documented chronicles, which is unique in the long history of mankind. Among the four major ancient civilizations in the world, only China's history has always been passed down in an orderly manner and has never been interrupted.

"Railway Changes the World" tells the story of the people and events that created the railway. For example, the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1830 marked a huge change in transportation. It reveals the huge impact of the rapid development of railways on the world. Railways not only connected major cities, but also promoted economic development and social change like never before. From Panama to northwest India, from Tasmania to Turin, Italy, the article shows the visionary and determined railway pioneers and the tireless efforts of railway workers to build a global network that spans all continents - railways. It also proves that the rise of trains enabled engineering feats, innovations in architecture and the rapid transportation of people and goods around the world.

The "General History of Chinese Poetry" edited by Zhao Minli and Wu Sijing includes: Pre-Qin volume, Han Dynasty volume, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties volume, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties volumes, Song Dynasty volume, Liao, Jin and Yuan volumes, Ming Dynasty volume, Qing Dynasty volume, Modern volume, Contemporary volume, and Minority Nationalities volume. This book is a refined version of "A General History of Chinese Poetry". Through sorting out and writing histories of Chinese poetry in various periods, it establishes a new historical view of Chinese poetry and fully reflects the rich and colorful phenomena of Chinese poetry and the achievements in the study of Chinese poetry in the past century.