Name: Liu Danchen

Email: liudanchen2001@aliyun.com

Position: Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: Modern Chinese History

Research interests: Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Ancient History, History of Sino-foreign Relations, Confucianism in Pre-Qin Dynasty and History of Modern Chinese Thought

Qualifications: Doctor’s Degree

Courses: Study on Historical Theory and Research Methods, Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Research Methods; Intensive Reading to Sishu and Zhongyong; Introduction to Four Books, and Outline of Modern Chinese History

Publications: Confucius' Thought of Ruling by Virtue: A Comparative Study with Plato's Political Thought (2018); Renaissance Famous Political Thinkers and Their Representative Works (2015); History of Governing the Country for Political Needs (2010). Papers (recent 3 years): A Comparative Study of Confucius and Plato's Thoughts on Governing the Nation (2020); A Study on Identity of History and Culture of the Chinese Nation in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China (2019); Innovation and Inheritance in Sun Yat-sen's Idea of Modernization of Constitution (2018); The Spread of Confucianism in Vietnam and Its Cultural Impact (2018); Sun Yat-sen's "Five Powers Constitution" Theory's Contribution to the Modernization of China's Rule of Law (2017); The Tianxia Worldview in Ancient China and the View of World Order in Occident(2016)

Research Grants: Research on the Construction of Chinese National Identity from the Perspective of National Transformation: Focusing on Xinjiang in the period of the Republic of China (National Social Science Foundation for specific research, 2019), the World View and the Identity of the Chinese Nation (2018 CUPL research Project), the intensive reading of Daxue and Zhongyong (2018 CUPL research Project), Characteristic Courses and Cultivation of College Students' Cultural Quality: Taking the Course of Introduction to Four Books as an Example (2010 CUPL research Project), The History and Cultural Impact of Confucianism Spreading Eastward to Japan (Research Project, 2010), Participation in "Research on Social and People's Livelihood Changes during the Reformation of Europe" (National Social Science Foundation Project, 2011)

External roles: a director of the Chinese Society for the History of Foreign Relations (the first-level society of the state), the Overseas Traffic History Society and the Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China (Japan)

Academic visiting: Visiting scholar, San Francisco State University (April 2014 to April 2015)