China News Service, Beijing, June 29th (Reporter Ying Ni) The new book release symposium "The History of Chinese History" (nine volumes) jointly held by the Commercial Press and the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was held in Beijing on the 29th.

For the first time, this series of books comprehensively displays the research results of Chinese history in the past 40 years since the reform and opening up.

  "The History of Chinese History" is compiled by the editorial department of "Research Trends in Chinese History", which collects the annual review of ancient Chinese chronological history research from 1980 to 2019, including the Pre-Qin, Qin and Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. , Song Dynasty volume, Liao Jin Xixia volume, Yuan Dynasty volume, Ming Dynasty volume, Qing Dynasty volume, a total of nine volumes, each independently published in hardcover.

  Founded in 1979, "Research Trends in Chinese History" is an academic journal that publishes research reviews and monographs on Chinese history and related interdisciplinary subjects. Research dynamics.

This collection and publication embodies its style of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and also embodies the characteristics of "three new and three old" - liking the new but not tired of the old, chasing the new but not forgetting the old, and renovating but not keeping the old.

Photo courtesy of the Commercial Press at the symposium

  Professor Bu Xianqun, director of the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in his speech: "This set of books comprehensively reflects the development of ancient Chinese history research in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. If there is a book that reflects the new China and reforms The journal that has opened up the research process of ancient Chinese history over the past 40 years is none other than "Dynamics". The publication of the nine-volume "History" is a joint effort of the national historians for decades."

  Gu Qing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Director of the Commercial Press, believes that the public publication of "The History of Chinese History" has three values. Contribute to development and new prosperity.

The second is to commemorate the historians.

Some historians and their works are just like "flash in the pan", coupled with the poor communication in the early years, some researchers and their research results are even more obscure, but it is undeniable that they have all contributed to historical research and promoted The progress of related research, today we publish the status of historical research for decades, so that more people can see these researchers and research results.

Thirdly, with the joint efforts of the editor-in-chief and the publishing house, some corruption of the articles published in the early years were revised, so that the introduction of the relevant authors and works was more accurate, and the retrieval and citation of the later ones were more convenient.

  Professor Zhong Weimin, Department of History, Tsinghua University, Professor Zhang Fan, Department of History, Peking University, Professor Zhu Hu, School of History, Renmin University of China, Professor Huang Guohui, School of History, Beijing Normal University, Professor Peng Yong, School of History and Culture, Minzu University, and Liu, School of History and Culture, Capital Normal University Prof. Yi and Lin Cunyang, director of the Qing History Research Office of the Academy of Social Sciences, all made speeches at the meeting, fully affirming the significance and academic value of the first public publication of the nine-volume "The History of Chinese History".

  Experts and scholars at the meeting generally believed that this set of "The History of Chinese History" gave an overview of the achievements made at home and abroad, covering all aspects of research in related fields, and for the first time comprehensively demonstrated the research results of Chinese history in the past 40 years since the reform and opening up. , a comprehensive review of the development path of historiography in the past 70 years in New China. It has the value of historiography and academic history, and can be called a masterpiece of the emperor.

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