Northwestern University History · 11

Author: Peking University History Department Editors
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This issue of "Peking University History" has undergone an external redesign. The main content continues to feature historical papers by faculty and students of Peking University's History Department, supplemented with relevant papers by experts and scholars from outside the university and abroad. The content of this issue covers topics such as: the Silk Road trade of the Byzantine Empire with China in the 6th and 7th centuries, the impact of the American Revolution in Britain, an analysis of civic education thought in the French Enlightenment, nuclear weapons and Khrushchev's policy toward the United States, historical types of the origin of capitalism, urban traffic and the Duting during the Han and Wei periods, research on Japan's bureaucratic system during the Wei and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the early Ming dynasty's capital military forces, and the late Qing dynasty's auditing system, among others.