From November 3-5, the First Youth Academic Forum: China and the World at the Turn of the 20th Century was hosted in Nankai University, which was co-organized by the Faculty of History in Nankai University, School of History and Culture in Shandong University, and the Boxer Movement Research Association. About 40 scholars and students of related areas from Nankai University, Shandong University, Hebei Normal Univeristy, Shandong Normal University, Macao University, Beijing Normal University, Shanxi University, Nanjing Normal University, Tsinghua University, et al. attended the forum.
Hosted by Prof. Wang Xianming from the Faculty of History in Nankai University, Prof. Liu Jiafeng from the School of History and Culture in Shandong University, Prof. Dong Conglin from the School of History and Culture in Hebei Normal University, Prof. Tao Feiya from the Department of History in Shanghai University, Prof. Tian Halin from School of History and Social Development in Shandong Normal University, Editor Guo Changying and Zhang Xiuli from the Journal of Historical Science, Editor Yang Lianxia from the History Teaching, Directory Li Fan from the Social Science Journal attended and addressed the event respectively.
The forum was divided into four discussion groups: “International Factors of China’s Change at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, “The Boxer Movement and the World”, “The Clergy and the Disciple during the period before and after the Boxer Movement”, “The New Deal of Beiyang Government in the Late Qng Dynasty”, “Reform, New Deal and Revolution: the Presentation and the Essence of Chinese History at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, and “Social Changes in China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”. Focused on China’s social, political, thinking, education, and living changes during the Boxer Movement, the forum broke through the relative limitations of the Boxer Rebellion research, excavated the new historical materials in both Chinese and foreign languages, and expanded the research vision.
It is the first time that the forum targeted at the young scholars for nearly forty years. Prof. Wang Xianming, Chairman of the Boxer Movement Research Association, decided to take this forum as an opportunity to provide a better platform for young scholars to promote the development of Boxer Movement research jointly.
