History is one of the earliest established disciplines at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (UCASS). As early as 1978, when the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (GSCASS) was founded, the Department of Archaeology, Department of Ancient History, Department of Modern History, and Department of World History began admitting students. Over more than 40 years of development, a host of nationally and internationally renowned scholars have taught and conducted research here, including Gu Jiegang, Hou Wailu, Yang Xiangkui, Xia Nai, Yin Da, Tang Changru, An Zhimin, Hu Houxuan, Xie Guozhen, Sun Yutang, Bai Shouyi, Zhang Zhenglang, Li Xueqin, Li Shu, Li Xin, Liao Xuesheng, Shi Xingbang, Su Bai, Wang Yuquan, Liu Qiyu, Yu Shengwu, Chen Zhihua, Zhang Changshou, Lin Ganquan, Wang Zengyu, Chen Hansheng, Zhang Zhenkun, Chen Tiejian, Cai Meibiao, Liu Danian, Qiu Shihua, Wang Qingcheng, Xu Pingfang, Zhang Haipeng, Yang Tianshi, Chen Gaohua, Geng Yunzhi, Zhang Zexian, Chen Zuwu, Liu Qingzhu, Yu Pei and Zhu Jiamu. They have laid a solid foundation for the history discipline at UCASS.

The School offers a complete range of academic programs and has a highly distinguished faculty. It is authorized to offer doctoral programs in three first-level disciplines under History, namely Archaeology, Chinese History, and World History. The School has 95 doctoral supervisors, 221 master’s supervisors and 16 external supervisors, making it the largest supervisory team among history disciplines in Chinese universities.

In undergraduate education, the School fully leverages the academic strength of the Chinese Academy of History and actively innovates its training model. Its core mission is to cultivate academic talents to serve national and social development. To promote high-quality teaching and talent development through academic research, the School has adopted such models as the integration of teaching and research, seamless undergraduate-master’s-doctoral education, targeted personnel training, and in-depth internationalization. It makes full use of academic training initiatives such as the Seedling Program (UCASS) to strengthen students’ ability to conduct independent research. The School emphasizes the importance of frontier academic knowledge while expanding students’ professional horizons, and actively draws on the expertise of outstanding scholars from China and abroad.

As one of UCASS’s research-education integrated schools, the School holds a very prominent position nationwide in disciplinary construction and scientific research capacity. The School is authorized to offer doctoral degrees in 11 second-level disciplines such as Archaeology, Chinese History and World History, and provides master degrees in 14 second-level disciplines such as Neolithic Archaeology of China, Xia-Shang-Zhou Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Museology, Historical Geography, and Contemporary Chinese History. The School enjoys distinctive disciplinary advantages in such fields as Neolithic Archaeology, Xia-Shang-Zhou Archaeology, Han-Tang Archaeology, Pre-Qin History, Qin-Han History, Modern Chinese Diplomatic History, History of Chinese Borderlands, and Chorography. Since 2016, faculty members of the School have been awarded 153 grants from the National Social Science Fund of China which places the School first in this regard in China, encompassing major, general, rare-discipline, post-funding, and youth projects under the Fund. Currently, The History of the Qing Dynasty, compiled by the National Committee for the Compilation of Qing History, is being reviewed under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of History, with the participation of numerous scholars from the School. In addition, the CPC Central Committee has entrusted the Chinese Academy of History with the important task of revising and compiling the General History of China, in which many of faculty members from the School are involved.

The School has achieved outstanding success in talent cultivation. Over the past 40 years, it has educated more than 1,000 graduates, over half of whom have undertaken academic careers in research institutes and universities. Among its alumni, there are: Members of CASS such as Chen Zuwu, Song Zhenhao, Wang Zhenzhong, Wang Wei and Chen Xingcan; high-ranking leaders with strong academic backgrounds including Wu Yin and Zhang Baijia; distinguished senior scholars such as An Jiayao, Wu Enyuan, Li Ling, Yuan Jing and Yu Pei; leading academic figures including Wang Jianlang, Wang Chaoguang, Xia Chuntao, Bu Xianqun and Zhu Jiamu; winners of the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award including Zang Yunhu, Xing Wen, Yan Zhibin and Lü Peng.

Rooted in a profound academic tradition and driven by a spirit of innovation, the School remains committed to education for societal progress. Working alongside fellow scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the School will strive to make contributions to cultivating outstanding professionals in history and embrace a bright future with a fresh outlook.

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