Water Wells and Northern Rural Society: based on field research on rural water wells in some areas of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces     
   Hu Yingze 
Using stelae from water wells and oral materials collected during field research, this essay examines water well customs in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan  since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and giv......

( Originally Published 1910 ) 
A Perilous Passage, zechuen, weichau, the Poorest Province in China-Yunnan, ribes of Aborigines 
THUS far our voyage of exploration, like one of Cook's tours, has been personally conducted. From this point, however, I must depend upon the experience of others : the guide himself must seek a guide to conduct him throug......

Urban-Rural Distinctions In modern China, legal distinction is made between urban and rural dwellers, and movement from rural to urban status is difficult. Urban life is felt to be far preferable, and living standards and opportunities for such advantages as education are much better in the cities. This firm and absolute distinction, which had no p......

 

ALTHOUGH it is still too early to take final stock of Shanghai's plight and the colossal losses its citizens have sustained in the present entirely unnecessary and preventable hostilities, it is not too soon to look into the future of this great city and port in the light of a critical examination of its past, with the object once and for all of......

Chiang Kai-shek and the Turn in Sino-Japanese and Sino-Soviet Relations in 1935     Lu Xijun ()
In early 1935, the Nationalist government’s policies toward Japan and the Soviet Union had many aspects. Japan’s one-sided understanding of Chiang Kai-shek’s strategy and of the complex triangular interactions between China, Japan and the Soviet Union......

With the empire-wide sharp increase in cases that resulted from the Jiaqing emperor lifting the prohibition on direct appeals to Beijing, the longstanding scarcity of governmental resources in the Qing dynasty went from bad to worse. In order to mitigate this embarrassing situation, provincial governors drew upon resources from the traditional judi......

经过65年沧桑巨变，人们看得更加清楚，中华人民共和国的成立开...

      
     
 
“战争与外交：第五届近代中外关系史国际学术讨论会”于2014年11月22-23日在北京举行。会议由中国社会科学院近代史研究所中外关系史研究室、北京大学历史系联合主办。来自中国大陆、台湾、香港以及日本、韩国、丹麦等国家或地区的近70名学者出席，共收到论文58篇。
 
在开幕式上，中国社会科学院近代史研究所所长王建朗研究员、北京大学历史系王元周......

      
     
 
2014年12月，拙著《清代西藏史研究》由社会科学文献出版社出版，全书32.9万字。这里，想把本书的内容、有关情况及自己的一些想法写出来，就教于大家。
 
1978年秋，我考上中国人民大学清史研究所的硕士研究生，师从戴逸教授、马汝珩教授研究清代的理藩院及边疆民族政教制度，1981年毕业，获历史学硕士学位。30多年来，我一直在这个领域耕耘，从事清代西藏史某些......

      
     编者按：超级剧透——第22届国际历史科学大会将于8月23至29日在山东济南举行！国际历史科学大会是当今影响最大的历史学国际盛会之一，向有史学界“奥林匹克”的美誉。本次大会是100多年来国际历史科学大会首次在亚洲、第二次在非欧美地区举办，届时全世界2000多名历史学者将齐聚济南。国际史学会主席玛丽亚塔•西塔拉和秘书长罗贝尔&bull......