Research Center for the History of the Republic of China at Nanjing University was authorized in September 2000 by the Ministry of Education to be a Key Humanities and Social Science Research Base. It is also one of the earliest institutions in mainland China to be engaged in the study of the history of the Republic of China.

The center has attracted a large number of high-caliber scholars from at home and abroad to establish an academic platform for promoting the studies on the history of the Republic of China. Its construction and development over the past 30 years has brought broad recognition of its achievements and contributions among the academic circles at home and abroad. Now it has become a national key research base, regarded as “advanced in China and renowned in the world.”