Zheng Chenglin, Shi Huijia: The Participation of Chambers of Commerce in the Unification of Weights and Measures under the Nanjing Nationalist Government
The unification of weights and measures is of great significance for popular life, the expansion of markets, the unity of the regime, and nation-building. Therefore, once the Nationalist government was established in Nanjing,it immediately launched a change in the system of weights and measures.Business groups,particularly chambers of commerce,were actively involved in the reform.They gave fu...
October 4
2017Zhou Yuefeng: The Popularization of the Term "New Cultural Movement" after the May Fourth Movement and the Evolvement of Its Early Meaning
Previous research often treats the "New Cultural Movement" as a clearly defined term,but when this term firstly appeared,it was both a slogan for the reform movement and a noun to describe the situation then.It was used with various meanings.Its early meaning was different from intellectual and artistic discussion before the May Fourth Movement,and different from social and political revolu...
April 4
2017Chen Zhiwu: On the Past and Future Prospects of Quantitative History Research
For almost six decades,quantitative history research has substantially deepened our understanding of history and made historical research more of a science. Regardless the field of inquiry, the basic scientific method follows five steps. First,identify the research question and develop a testable hypothesis;Second,find or generate data through experiments or from pre-existing sources relevant...
December 4
2016Peng Nansheng,Li Zhongqing:Why did the Grasscloth Handicraft Industry Decline in Modern China:Analysis on the view of the Crisis of Exporting Grasscloth to Korea and the Response in 1920s to 1930s.
Abstract:In 1920s to 1930s, Chinese grasscloth handicraft industry has declined gradually. One important reason is the loss the Korea market step by step.During that time, the crisis of exporting grasscloth to Korea and the grasscloth handicraft industry decline is complementary to each other.From the begining of 1920s,Japan has increased the import tariffs of Chinese grasscloth gradually,imple...
September 4
2016Tang Baolin: A Biography of Chen Duxiu, Social Science Academic Press, 2013 Version
The book is the culmination of Chen Duxiu Study. Utilizing original classified files and inheriting previous research achievements, the author Tang Baolin spent thirty years studying the ups and downs of Chen’s life and fully demonstrated Chen’s true history and charisma. The major contents of the book include: first, Chen’s family, early life and love experiences. Second, the foun...
August 4
2015A Memoir of Gu Weijun Written by Gu Weijun and Translated by Tang Gangde, Zhonghua Book Company, 2013 Version
Invited by US Columbia University, Gu Weijun, a renowned modern Chinese diplomat, participated in “Oral History Project” of the university. Altogether 5 scholars compiled the memoir according to Mr. Gu’s dictated information and left files. It took them 17 years to finish the compilation of 11,000 pages in total. The recorded history, characters and cases in the memoir disclose quit...
August 4
2015A Reconstruction of Modern China – the Imagination and Reality in Chinese Historical Writings, Written by Huaiyin Li and Translated by Sui Yousheng an
The book for the first time systematically recalls Chinese intellectuals’ modern Chinese history records of each period from the early 20th century. It includes the parallel development and conflict of the modernization history and the revolutionary history before 1949, the disciplinization of Marxist history in the 1950s and “radical history” from the late 1960s to the end of ...
August 4
2015Chinese Politics and Commerce – Yu QiaQing and His Age, written byFeng Xiaocai: Social Science Academic Press, 2013 Version
From the perspective of politics and commerce, the book selects Yu Qiaqing, a person without much fame. It takes his personal history and political and commercial issues as the framework, and untangles the historical veins of the evolution of political and commercial structures through case study. The author spent 18 years and set his foot on the libraries and archives in Zhejia...
August 4
20152nd Summit Forum on History of Republic of China Held in Chengdu
From 26th to 27th,October 2013, co-hosted by Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other units, 2nd History of Republic of China Summit Forum was held in Chengdu, Sichuan. 40 experts and scholars from the academia of Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Japan attended the symposium. The opening ceremony was hosted by deputy director of Institute of Mod...
June 4
2015The Academic Symposium on "Modern Law and Social Transformation" Held in Beijing
On 15th September, 2013, hosted by Institute of History, School of Humanities, China University of Political Science and Law and Center of Dong Fang Yi Legislative and Cultural studies, the academic symposium titled “Modern Law and Social Transformation” was held in Beijing. More than 40 experts and scholars from universities and research institutes across the country attende...
June 4
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