The Collected Works of Ma Da Zhen -- The Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Library

Author: Ma Daizheng
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The author is committed to thinking and exploring the correct path for the discipline construction of the study of the history and geography of China's frontier regions. His research field has also expanded from ethnic history to the history of China's frontier territories. Some of the papers in this collection are selected from five previously published collections, while two papers on the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom published in the early 1980s and ten papers not included in the aforementioned five collections and published after 2003 have been added. Second, as a collection, the author should reflect more on the trajectory of his research progress. Therefore, the arrangement is generally divided into seven categories based on the content of the research the author has conducted, namely: the study of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the study of ethnic history in the Sui, Tang, and Qing dynasties, the study of local history in Xinjiang, the study of the Northeast frontier and Central Asian history, the study of contemporary Chinese frontier research, the comprehensive study of China's frontier, and miscellaneous notes on frontier exploration. A total of 34 papers are included. It should be noted that due to the of the content, only some published research reports on contemporary Chinese frontier studies have been selected. Third, to preserve the original form of the papers when they were written, no changes are made when included in this collection, and the original publication date and source are noted at the end of each paper.