Beijing, March 2 (Reporter Li Jingze) The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences held a press conference on major achievements in Beijing on March 1 and released the "General History of Modern China" (revised edition).
General History of Modern China is a representative academic achievement written by researchers from the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The first edition of the book was published in 2006. The revised edition of this release absorbs the latest scientific research results as much as possible, and uses the latest information to comprehensively revise the whole book.
According to reports, the "General History of Modern China" (Revised Edition) is divided into 10 volumes, a total of more than 5.55 million words, summarizing the achievements in the field of modern Chinese history research over the past 70 years, especially in the past 20 years, and completing for the first time a large-scale general history of modern China with 1840-1949 as the time frame, which not only opens up the distinction between late Qing history and ** history in the sense of dynastic history, but also opens up the distinction between modern Chinese history and modern history with the May Fourth Movement in 1919 as the boundary in the academic circles, and builds a new framework for modern Chinese history. It has laid an academic foundation for further in-depth research on modern Chinese history.
Zhen Zhanmin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and member of the leading party group, pointed out that from the perspective of taking history as a mirror, this achievement can provide valuable experience for reference in the study of the difficult and tortuous struggle of modern China from "sinking" to "rising." From the perspective of academic development, this achievement completely describes the history of modern China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society from 1840 to 1949, and constructs a relatively complete discipline system of modern Chinese history around the basic clues of national independence, people's liberation, national unification and prosperity, which builds a broad platform and opens up a new horizon for further research on modern Chinese history. (ENDS).
*: China News Network).