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Founded by the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1954, and displaying Guo Moruo’s calligraphy on its cover, Modern Historical Data is an academic journal specializing in publishing modern Chinese historical literature and data. Modern Historical Data was edited by the editorial group of Modern Historical Data at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and published quarterly by the Science Press. Each issue contained about 200,000 Chinese characters (though some issues had 300,000 to 500,000 Chinese characters). It stopped publication after 24 issues (No.1 to No. 24). After it resumed publication in 1962, it was published at irregular intervals by Zhonghua Book Co. In 1965, after 12 issues (No. 25 to No. 36), it stopped publication again. In 1978 it resumed publication again, and a total of 8 issues (No. 37 to No. 44) were published by Zhonghua Book Co. through 1980. Since 1981, it has been published by China Social Sciences Press, and has already reached its 108th issue. At the present time, it is still published on an irregular basis, 3 or 4 issues each year, mainly collecting various source materials on the history of the period from 1912 to 1949.

Since its founding, the Journal has published historical source material on modern Chinese politics, economy, culture, diplomacy, military affairs, customs and society, totaling about 21 million Chinese characters, including original materials such as documents, letters, messages, diaries, manuscripts, memoirs, interview notes, investigation reports, pictures and rubbings, as well as chronological tables, statistic tables, textual analysis, and translations of foreign language materials.

The Department has also published 22 special issues, totaling about 10.13 million Chinese characters, consisting principally of:

· Selected Works from Yunnan Magazine.

· Compilation of Documents of the Consultative Committee of the Shaaxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

· The Bloody History of Ezhou.

· Record of the Events of 1900.

· Historical Materials on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

· Historical Materials on the 1911 Revolution in Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces.

· Materials on the Peace Negotiations between the South and North in 1919.

· The Telegrams of Xu Shuzheng.

· Selected Materials on Intellectual History in the Opium War Period.

· The Patriotic May Fourth Movement.

· Selected Bulletins Issued by the General Headquarters of the Generalissimo of the Army and Navy.

· Classified Materials on the 1911 Revolution.

· Historical Materials on the Boxer Movement.

· Documents and Materials on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

· Documents on the Shangdong Boxers (2 volumes).

· Yang Ru’s Surviving Manuscripts from the Years 1900-1901,

· Overseas Chinese and the 1911 Revolution, The Diary of Wu Yu, etc.

Specializing in publishing modern Chinese historical materials, the historical materials that have appeared in the journal over the last 50 years have drawn wide attention in Chinese and international historical circles and are frequently cited by historians all over the world. Responding to the needs of Chinese and foreign readers, the journal has been reproduced on microfilm by the Foreign Languages Press and the CASS Library Information Center and distributed in China and overseas.

In addition to the job of editing Modern Historical Data, at present the Editorial Department also undertakes the task of editing Historical Materials on the War of Liberation, a CASS priority project.

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