Editor’s Notes

Editor's Notes I first want to thank Lloyd Eastman and John Israel for acting as editors, respectively, of the February and October 1983 issues. This issue inaugurates our new, longer format. I am particularly pleased with the range and substance of contributions in this issue, and I am happy to report that your response has been so great that we are publishing an additional issue in April. It will include essays by John Israel and Jerome Grieder and a lengthy report by Guy Alitto on research projects around the world which focus on local history during the Republic. I envision Republican China as a forum where new ideas are tested and old.ideas challenged~ as a vehicle for keeping abreast of the research of scholars in the field and of the critical issues of interpreting the Republican era; and as an introduction to important books or significant passages in translation. Occasional issues will feature one theme: the October 1984 Republican China will, for example, survey women and women's issues in the Republican era. I would like to invite you to join in contributing to future issues. I welcome letters, notes, and essays commenting on or discussing issues raised here. If there are features you would like to see, important books you want reviewed, or key passages you would like translated, please let me know. Republican China will be only as good as you help make it. In order that I have a file from which to solicit occasional contributions or comments, I would like for each of you to fill out the enclosed form and send it to me as soon as possible. Submit double-spaced manuscripts with one copy; notes should appear at the end. Both Wade-Giles and Pinyin romanizations are acceptable. ************ Republican China subscribers -- and other Republican history specialists -- are invited to a reception in honor of Li Zongyi, head of the Republican History Project at the Institute of Modern History in the Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Mr. Li is visiting the United States through the CSCPRC's scholarly exchange program; his host is Stephen MacKinnon at Arizona State University. The reception will be hosted by Republican China, with thanks to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC and the China and Inner Asia Council for financial help. Time: 7:30 to 9:30a.m., Friday, March 23 Place: Dupont Room, Washington Hilton Coffee and danish will be served. ...