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This article presents a summary of the "Seminar on editing and publishing modern Tianjin's financial history," held November 9-10, 2010, in Tianjin, China, and sponsored by the Tianjin Archive. More than 50 experts and scholars from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and other cities attended this meeting, and 40 papers were presented. The first part of the article summarizes the relationship between the financial industry and Tianjin as a financial center. The second part discusses currency, financial markets, and market trends. The third part discusses financial structure, bankers, and banks. The fourth covers location and characteristics of archival materials and other miscellaneous topics. The fifth covers key issues raised by the primary source materials.

The sixth international conference on the history of Republican China was held in Nanjing between August 21-23, 2010. The conference was co-organized by Nanjing University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Tokyo University, and Moscow National University, among other schools. Over one hundred fifty scholars attended the conference and presented over one hundred papers. The focus of the symposium was social transformation during the Republican period. This article provides a summary of panels on the transformation in Republican China through the lens of politics, economics, key individuals, intellectual history and society, and foreign relations with Korea, Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union.