A Brief Modern Chinese History

Über den Autor

Haipeng Zhang, born in 1939, graduated from the Department of History of Wuhan University in August 1964. He entered the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and served as researcher since 1990. Since 2006, he serves as Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also President of the Association of Chinese Historians and President of the China Sun Yat-sen Research Institute. He is editor-in-chief of the 10 volumes of The General History of Modern China, author of A Study of the Pursuit of the Historical Process of Modern China, Research on the Basic Problems of Chinese Modern History, Research on Modern Chinese History, and many other publications. Jinyi Zhai holds a Ph.D in history at the Graduate School of  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research fields mainly focus on the history of Chinese politics, history of public security, and history of Taiwan, China. From 2011 to 2013, Jinyi Zhai worked at Social Sciences in China Press. Now, he is lecturer at People's Public Security University of China, and deputy director of the History Teaching and Research Section. He has co-authored the book Concise Handbook of Modern Chinese History and has published various articles.