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From April 23 to 26, 2010, the Annual China-US History Research Academic Seminar was held at Xiamen University, in China. Over 130 participants from sixty-plus universities and research institutions attended the seminar, and 113 research papers were submitted. Topics discussed included: 1) American political and foreign relations history; 2) American social and economic history; and 3) American religious and cultural issues. American history education challenges were also discussed. The sponsoring association's board of directors held an election during the seminar, in which Professor Xu Wang was elected chairman. In addition, CINFO, an information technology company, exhibited new software that can facilitate historical research.

This article reports on a seminar on medieval English constitutionalism held in Rochester, New York, in 2009. Twenty-eight academic papers were presented and discussed during this seminar. Three articles were considered as “representative academic accomplishments” and were translated into Chinese and published in an academic journal. The focuses on these three articles: “The Anglo-Saxon Origins of English Constitutionalism” by J. Campbell; “Small Landholders at Central Assemblies, c. 920-1270: The Pre-History of the Knights of the Shire” by J. Maddicott; and “The Literature and the History, Questioning Constitutionalism of Medieval England” by R. Kaeupre.

The "International Symposium on Early State Formation," sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' World History Research Institute, was held in Beijing, China, from November 4th to 5th, 2009. Over fifty scholars from China, the United States, Japan, The Netherlands, and Russia attended the meetings. The themes were 1) civilization and state origin theories, and 2) models and characteristics of state origins in the ancient world. The author organizes the papers presented into seven categories and summarizes the major theories in each category. The seven categories under discussion are 1) Marx and Engels’ theory on state origins; 2) ancient tribes; 3) early state formation; 4) material and cultural exchange among civilized regions, 5) the ancient city-state; 6) civilization and state, and 7) Western research methods and models.

The 2009 seminar on China and Medieval World History was held from August 23 to 26, 2009, at Chunmin Island, Shanghai, China. This seminar was sponsored by the Chinese Society of Medieval World History and Shanghai Normal University. Over 120 scholars and researchers from forty-plus universities and research institutes attended the seminar and presented more than sixty research papers. The themes of this seminar were as follows: 1) the political systems of medieval states; 2) the medieval economics and social transition; and 3) medieval culture.

This article presents a report on the conference “Marx and Engels’ Eight Letters on Historical Materialism” held on 27 January 2010 in Beijing, China. The conference was sponsored by the China Academy of Social Sciences' World History Research Center, Office of Marxism, Materialism, and Foreign Historic Theories. Fourteen papers were presented. Topics discussed included historical materialism, class conflict, and how to apply Marxism to current social conditions.