Contents

Articles

Byzantine Studies in Transformation: How the General History of Byzantium Redefi nes Byzantine Historiography in China/Zhu Ziyao (1)

The Practice and Function of Religion in Military Actions in Xenophon’s Anabasis/Xu Lang (15)

The Limitations and Interdisciplinary Shift of Research on the History of Children’s Mental Health in the United States since the 1960s/Sun Fan

The Evolution of Mexico’s Political System and Its Role in the National Modernization Process/Feng Xiuwen

Pathfi nder

Professor He Shunguo and His Musing on History: Theory, Capitalism, and the United States/Zhang Hongju

Conferences

A Review of the 2024 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of French Historical Studies/You Lishi and Huang Tao 

A Review of the 2024 Annual Conference of the China British History Association/Yi Jinming and Yu Xin

Book Reviews

Gao Weinong, The Maritime Silk Road: Routes, Chinese Merchants and Workers/Chen Yishen 

Wen Shanshan, Communal Dining in the Roman West: Private Munifi cence towards Cities and Associations in the First Three Centuries AD. /Wang Zhongxiao 

Wang Chao, A Study of the Economic Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany towards the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990)/ Hu Zheng and Meng Zhongjie (113)

Sun Jiandang, Research on American Decolonization Policy in the 20th Century: A Case Study of Southeast Asia/Geng Biao (119)