History is one of the oldest and most glorious academic disciplines at Tsinghua University. After its establishment in 1911, Tsinghua began to offer courses of Chinese and Western History. In 1926, the History Department was officially established, and its faculty then included many well-known scholars, such as Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Chen Yinque, Lu Maode, Jiang Tingfu, Liu Chonghong, Lei Haizong, Zhang Yinlin, Wu Han, Shao Xunzheng, Wang Xinzhong, Sun Yutang, Zhou Yiliang, Ding Zeliang, Wang Yongxing, and so on, and under the influence of these scholars gradually took shape the academic tradition of “Zhongxi Yonghui, Gongjin Guangtong” (combining the Chinese and Western learning, linking the ancient and the modern). Many graduates from the Department became outstanding scholars in the fields of history. In the 1952 nationwide restructuring of institutions of higher education in China, the Department was abolished and the faculty members were moved to Peking University and other universities. In the following three decades, however, although Tsinghua did not have a history department, modern Chinese history was taught and studied at the university.

　　After the 1980s, Tsinghua began to restore its programs in humanities, and history was included. In 1985, the Institute of Humanities was founded, focusing mainly on the Chinese intellectual and cultural history. The History Department was re-created in 1993. The History Department and the Institute of Humanities were incorporated in 2003 and became current History Department. A strong faculty and a large collection of books and research materials in the Department have brought the cooperation to the international level.

　　The History Department is at the core of history studies at Tsinghua, and it has teaching and research branches in ancient Chinese history, modern Chinese history, world history, intellectual and cultural history, and also Research Center of Bamboo and Silk Inscriptions and Unearthed Literatures, Research Center of Chinese Classics, Research Center of Chinese Economic History, Research Center of Modern Chinese Culture and Modernization, Institute of International Sinology, Institute of Northeast Asia Research, Research Center of Tourist Culture and Cultural Heritages. The Department has been authored to enroll undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students (including international students) in all areas of the study of history.

　　The Department presently has 14 full professors, 13 associate professors, 4 lecturers, and 4 adjacent professors. Among the faculty, there is a Fellow of Euro-Asian Academy of Sciences, one director of the evaluation group for history under the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, one member of the National Ancient Literature Compilation Committee, one member of the National Universities Committee of Ancient Literature Compilation, one member of the National Directing committee of Historical Teaching, and one president and three vice presidents of national academic associations.

　　Currently, Professor Zhang Guogang serves as Chair of the Department, and Associate Professors Wang Qi, Associate Professors Peng Gang as Vice Chairs. Professor Ge Zhaoguang as Chair of the Academic Committee of the Department with Professor Liu Beicheng as Vice Chair.

　　Address: History Department, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
　　Postal code: 100084
　　 Tel: 86-010-6278 5745
　　 Fax: 86-010-6278 5745
　　 Email Address: lsx@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn