Contents

　　Articles

　　The Helpless Emperor: The Expenditure on Official Hostel System and Its Institutional Change in the Late Former Han China /Hou Xudong (1)

　　Urban Agglomerations in Southern Fujian Province of China since the Mid-20th Century:A Comparison with the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States /Wang Xu (24)

　　18 Brumaire and Its Place in the French Revolution: A Critical Historiography /Matteo Salonia (39)

　　Standpoint

　　On the Soviet Model of Development /Wu Enyuan (61)

　　Pathfinder

　　Marxist Historian Huang Shaoxiang /Huang Renguo (77)

　　Review Article

　　The New Progress of Renaissance Studies by Chinese Scholars—Centred on the 12 Volumes of Renaissance History /Liu Minghan (93)

　　Book Reviews

　　Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories: Linguistic and Historical Perspectives /Ge Huipeng (107)

　　Li Haifeng, Researches on Economic Activities of Real Estates in the Old Babylonian Period /Shi Xiaowen (110)

　　Chen Zhiqiang, The History of the Byzantine Empire /Pang Guoqing (116)

　　Ma Keyao, Studies on English Feudal Society /Li Longguo (119)

　　Zuo Fengrong and Liu Xianzhong, From the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation: A Study of the Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities /Huang Lifu (123)