Established in June 2019, Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Civilizations is an academic and non-profit social organization supervised by the Chinese Academy of History, and its management is entrusted to the Institute of World History.

The center is endeavored to leverage the respective strengths of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Chinese Academy of History, to organize research projects on ancient civilizations, in which, ancient Chinese, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indian are the main targets. The center will dedicate to comparative studies of these ancient civilizations, in order to understand their origination and developing patterns, their lineage and the interactions between the civilizations, so to figure out the nature and development of human beings.

The center will serve to:

Østay in touch with relevant home and abroad academic groups, propose, discuss and plan for key research programs of ancient civilizations, mainly on such themes as nature of ancient civilizations, methods and theories of comparative studies, etc.

Øintroduce and exchange research achievements and developments of ancient civilization studies at home and abroad by organizing academic lectures, seminars and symposiums;

Øpopularize academic knowledge to fulfill the public needs

Øpublish, compile, edit or translate works of ancient civilizations

Structure:

Chair: WANG Wei

Deputy Chair: GUO Xiaoling, SONG Zhenhao, FENG Shi, GONG Yushu, HUO Wei

Director: WANG Chaoguang

Deputy Director: LIU Jian, REN Linglan

Secretary General: LIU Jian