• Institute of History, CASS / 中国社会科学院历史研究所
  The research scope of this institute ranges from Chinese pre-historic times, slave society to the feudal society before the Opium War in 1840.
  
  
• Institute of Modern History, CASS / 中国社会科学院近代史研究所
  The institute's studies mainly focus on the history of the 110 years from the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840 to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
  Publication resources: 《近代史资料》
  
  
• The Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica / 史语所
  IHP focuses not only on conventional historical research, but also on archaeology, philology, and fieldwork.