The Project on the History of the Republic of China

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, historians have paid much attention to the study of the history of the Republic of China. When the nation devised its twelve-year plan for scientific studies in 1965, the compilation of a Histori of the Republic of China was listed as a priority item, second only to History of Modern China and History of the New Democratic Revolution in China. Nineteen sixty-one, the fiftieth anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, marked the high tide in the study of the 1911 Revolution. Published articles and monographs by historians, and essays and memoirs by veteran revolutionaries have totaled more than 10,000,000 words. The national Political Consultative Conference and its provincial and municipal branches and various publishing companies have also collected countless manuscripts. In the same year, comrade Dong Biwu proposed the writing of the history of the Republic of China and the revising of the history of the Qing dynasty. Premier Zhou Enlai later also repeatedly urged that the history of the Republic be written. In 1971, a national meeting on publishing work was convened under Premier Zhou's direction. A publication plan was drawn up; in 1972 a History of the Republic of China was included in the plan. In the autumn of that year, we

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