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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.