| Based on Ph. D and M.A. programs for the History of Special Subjects, the institute basically concentrates on East-Asia Intellectual History, Regional History of Chinese Northeast, International Relations in Northeast Asia and History of Japan. Specifically, most of the studies have been focusing on each country or specific regions in each country in this area. Major areas of study include history of politics, economy, cultural and intellectual history and history of international relations in perspectives of culture, civilizations and multidisciplinary approaches.Since1985, faculty members have undertaken and completed seven projects sponsored by Chinese Social Sciences Foundation, five grants awarded by Ministry of Education and six projects granted by Chinese Social Sciences Academy . These academic activities have produced numerous publications in the fields of Ancient Chinese intellectual history, New Legalists and Enlightenment and characteristics of structural changes in social transformations in modern Japan, Japanese immigration policy in modern Chinese northeast, development of modern Chinese urbanization, developments in Korean peninsula and its impact on China, U.S. foreign policy to Japan since 1945,U.S.foreign policy toward Korean peninsula and U.S. policy in trade regulation toward the East during the post-war period. These publications are mainly thirty articles in periodicals such as Historical Research, Historiography Quarterly, American Studies, Japanese Studies and World History. In addition, several monographs are also well-received by readers, these including Human and Nature, Interpersonal Relationship, Body and Mind: ˇ®Ultimate Concern' in Chinese Ancient Intellectual Histor y, A Study of Modern Japanese New Legalists, Study of Social Transformation of Modern Japan, Japanese Immigrants in Modern Chinese Northeast, An Analysis of American Cold-war Strategy and Co-ordinary Export Control Committee of Area of Communist Party, A Study of Ethnic and Frontier History in Chinese Northeast, An Interpretation of Manchuria Archives .Moreover, more than ten advisory reports have been submitted to provincial and central governments for their considerations. Up to date, the above publications have been awarded impressive prizes. Two of books have won second-class and third-class prizes respectively by Ministry of Education under the title of Humanities and Social Sciences par excellence, one for first-class and three for second-class prize by Jilin Provincial Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Finally another two articles have respectively won first-and-second class by Song Qing-Ling foundation. |