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Gu Yanfang

 

E-mail:yfg178@126.com

Research Interests

·Transfer of Rural Labor before the Industrial Revolution

·Urbanization in medieval and early modern England

Main academic views

The establishment of modern industrial society has a deep historical origin with the completion of urbanization in Britain. Since the middle ages, the phenomenon of rural labor transfer and population flow has been very common, urbanization has made important progress, and rural industries developed rapidly after the late middle ages and grew into the pro-industries in the early modern times. Among them, the 17th Century Crisis was a key period for Britain to narrow the gap with European countries and then take the lead. By the early 18th century, Britain had surpassed European countries in rural labor transfer and urbanization, and the industrial revolution was just the peak and extension of this process.

Education

I studied in HarbinNormal University in 1991 and graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in history. In the same year, I studied for a master's degree in the graduate department of Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences. In 1998, I graduated with a master's degree in history. In July of the same year, I joined the department of history of Harbin Normal University as a teacher of medieval world history.In 1999, I studied for a doctorate in Academy of Middle Ages of Northeast Normal University and graduated in 2002 with a doctorate in history. In the same year, I returned to Harbin Normal University to work in the department of history. In April 2017, I was transferred to the institute of European civilization of Tianjin Normal University and has worked till now.

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Teaching

·World History of Middle Ages

·English Royal Family

·Seminars on Economic and Social History in Europe

Funded Research Projects:

Presided over the completion of the 2008 national social science fund late funding projects "pre-industrial Britain's rural labor transfer and urbanization", the 2014 national social science fund project "the population flow and rural change in the early modem England" and the ministry of education 2012 humanities and social science fund for young project"the late medieval England rural labor transfer and urbanization" andso on.

Key Publications:

Monographs

·The British Rural Labor Migration and Urbanization---from the High Middle Ages to Early Modern Era,Beijing: Central Compilation&Translation Press,2011.

·The Outlines of British Royal Family History---fromthe Norman Conquest to the Victorian Era,Harbin: Heilongjiang People's Publishing House,2004.

Articles

1.“The Rural Labor Migration and Urbanization in Britain during the Seventeenth Century Crisis”, World History, vol.1, 2013,pp.51-56+158-159.

2.“Reappraise the Relations Between Enclosure Movement and Urbanization in Pre-industrial England”,Journal of Tianjin Normal University (Social Science), vol. 4, 2008,pp.34-39. (Full reprinted by Xinhua Digest, vol. 21, 2008).

3. “The Characteristics of Medieval British Rural Labor Migration and Urbanization--- as well as Comparing with Characteristics during the Industrial Revolution”,World history, vol. 4, 2008,pp.106-114.

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