Contents

Articles

The Formation of U.S. Policy to Establish Military Bases in the Philippines in the Early Postwar Period and Its Implications/Jiang Xingshan and Zhang Cunwen

Immigrants, Citizenship and Social Integration in French Urban Society in the Late Middle Ages: A Case Study of Avignon/Lv Zhao

ἱερὰ καὶ ὅσια: The Polis Life in the Parthenon Inventories of 5th Century BC/Zhang Duoduo

Pathfi nders

Mao Zhaoxi and the Research of Prehistoric World History/Gong Yingyan

Tang Chongnan’s Research of Japanese History/Zhang Yuebin

Conferences

A Review of the 2022 Annual Conference of Chinese Research Association of World Ancient and Medieval History/Ji Yun and Han Yaoxin

A Review of the Inaugural Conference of the Asia Civilization Research Center/Liu Xiaochen and Zhang Yiwen

Book Reviews

Gong Yushu, The Epic of Gilgamesh /Chen Fei

Dong Ziyun, The Dimensions of Truth: The French National Legal Culture in the Making (1200-1500) /Shen Jian

Yang Chao, The Impossible American Dream of Equality: “Affi rmative Action”and the African American Employment, 1965-2000 /Lyu Hongyan

An Ping, Political Mobilization of the Modern Japanese Press (1868-1945) /Xie Shutian

Liang Lijia, Fur and Empire: A Study of the Russian-American Company’s Colonial Activities in the North Pacifi c, 1799-1825 /Wu Wanku