Contents

Articles

Tactics of Persuasion in Cicero’s Letters during the War of Mutina with the Military Commanders /Duan Hongyu (1)

The Adaptability of the Scottish Missionariesin Manchuria (1866-1931) /Wang Wei (25)

Notes on Reading

“Agrarian Capitalism” in Early Modern Britain: Some Problems and Reflections /Zhang Weiliang (50)

Pathfinder

He Shengda and the Southeast Asian History Research of China /Li Chenyang and Li Youjiang (62)

Dialogue

Exploring the Academic Consciousness of the Middle East Research from the Communication of Human Civilization——An Interview with Prof Peng Shuzhi. /Yan Wei (69)

Overriew

A Review and Reflection on the 100-hundred-year Study of Russian History in China /Zhang Jianhua (87)

Book Reviews

Liu Yingsheng, From the Western Pacific to Northern India Ocean: Ancient China and Asian-African Seas /Cao Jincheng (105)

Lan Qi, A History of Central Asia /Feng Guangyi (109)

Xing Laishun and Wu Youfa, The“Sonderweg”to “Gemeinschaft” : Xing Laishun and Wu Youfa, eds., A History of Germany /Xu Zhikai (114)

Wei Zhijiang, “Eurasia Regional History Research and the Silk Road-Mr.Hamashita Takeshi’s 10th Anniversary Memorial Anthology for Teaching in Sun Yat-Sen University” /Tao Sha (122)