ABSTRACT
The period from 1966 to 1976, ever since then modern Chinese history research, like other social sciences, had suffered severe damage and even destruction for ten years imposed by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao cliques. The first is the revival and reconstruction of modern Chinese social history and cultural history as branch disciplines. A large number of overseas writings on modern Chinese history began to be published and distributed in China, as well as various theories and methods. The study of modern Chinese history has entered a new period of development since 2000. A number of basic documentaries and literature of modern Chinese history have been collected, collated and published, having thus laid a solid foundation for further study. Systematic and in-depth study of the major events and topics in modern Chinese history was undertaken regarding the history of the imperialist invasion of China, peasant movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Revolution of 1911, and the capitalist economy.
