Contents

Articles

“Guided Modernization” in Turkey: From Young Turks to Kemalists/Zan Tao  Dong Zhenghua (1)

Ideas on Forest Conservation and Changes of the Land Policy in the United States (1891–1911)/ Li Hongmei (22)

Bulgarian Diplomatic Strategies vis-à-vis Byzantium during the Twenty Years’ Anarchy/Pang Guoqing (42)

On Pliny the Younger’s View of Feminine Virtues: A Study Based on Epistulae/Liu Xin (61)

Note on Reading

An Everyday Turn in Political History/Liu Yonghua (71)

Conferences

Symposium of “World History Studies at the Time of Great Changes” Held in Shanghai/Yao Peng (79)

Symposium of “War and Civilization” Held in Beijing/Zhang Wei (85)

Book Reviews

Yang Juping et al., Ancient Civilizations and the Silk Road/Lyu Houliang (89)

Zhou Houqin, From City-state to Empire: The Origins of Russian Autocracy/Zhuang Yu (92)

Han Qi et al., The Movement of Cultural Renovation and Modernization in Mexico/Dong Jingsheng (99)

Wu Xiangping, Japan’s Policy towards the German-Japan Alliance from 1936 to 1941/Zhang Dong (105)

Hang Cong, British Government Policy on British Sub-Saharan African Colonies at Postwar (1945-1980)/Li Shizhen (112)

Hou Shen, Cities without Walls: Relations between Urban and Nature in American History/Fu Chengshuang (119)