During the period of 1952, the national colleges and universities were adjusted, and the departments of ethnology, sociology and anthropology were cancelled. So, in addition to yenching university, Tsinghua University and Sun Yat-sen University, some experts and scholars in ethnology, sociology, anthropology and national history from Fu Jen Catholic University and Peking Research Institute came to the research department. The Research Department of Minzu University of China has become the last base camp of ethnology and sociology, and the earliest ethnology teaching and research center in New China. The most famous ethnologists, sociologists, anthropologists and ethnic historians in China at that time gathered here, such as Pan Guangdan, Wu Wenzao, Wen E, Yang Chengzhi, Weng Dujian, Fei Xiaotong, Lin, Jian Bozan, Wu and Feng Jiasheng. At that time, Mr. Fei Xiaotong was the vice president of the Central University for Nationalities, in charge of the research department, and also worked part-time in the research department. The research department is headed by Professor Weng Dujian. The research office consists of Northwest Research Office (room director Feng Jiasheng), Northeast Inner Mongolia Research Office (room director Weng Dujian), Southwest Research Office (room director Jane Bozan), Tibetan Studies Research Office (room director Lin), Southeast Research Office (room director Pan Guangdan) and Reference Room (room director). Later, a teaching and research section on the situation of ethnic minorities in China (director Wu Wenzao) was established, which was subordinate to the central government.

After the establishment of the research department, it helped the government to organize and participate in a series of major activities. The main work is as follows:

1. Participate in national identity

In the early 1950s, the central government organized many condolence delegations to visit ethnic minority areas all over the country. Mr. Fei Xiaotong once went to ethnic minority areas as the deputy head of the Central condolence group. Since 1953, in view of the unclear situation of some ethnic groups in China, personnel from various units have been deployed to conduct on-the-spot investigations on ethnic groups that need to be identified. 1August, 953 to1October, the research department Lin, Fu Lehuan, Fu-ren wang, Chen and Chuketu went to Hulunbeier to investigate the Daur ethnic identity. In September, 1953,, Hu, and Yang went to Xiangxi to conduct a Tujia identification survey. 1May, 954 to1May, Lin, Shi, Fu-ren wang, Huang Shuping, Chen Fengxian, etc. Go to Yunnan to conduct an ethnic identity survey. From 65438 to 0955, Fei Xiaotong and Song Shuhua went to Guizhou to identify and investigate people wearing blue and green. The above investigation played a guiding and exemplary role in the ethnic identification work in China at that time. Many scholars in the research department put forward their views on ethnic identification after field investigation and published some influential works. For example, Fei Xiaotong's Study of Ethnic Minorities, Fu Lehuan's Identification of the Ethnic Composition of Daur Nationality, Wang Mingxuan's Survey of Tujia Nationality in Western Hunan, Pan Guangdan's Tujia Nationality and Cubans in Northwest Hunan, Song Shuhua's Historical Origin of Salar Nationality, and the mutual economic life of Tu Nationality in Qinghai, etc.

2. Participate in the social and historical survey of ethnic minorities in China.

65438-0956, under the organization of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, an investigation on the social and historical situation of ethnic minorities in China was started. Before the survey, experts from the research department drafted the Reference Outline of Social Nature Survey, and explained the basic knowledge of social history survey to the participants. Many members of the research department participated in the specific investigation and became the backbone of the social history investigation team.

3. Edited and published the translation series on ethnic issues and the research collection on ethnic issues in China.

65438-0954, the Counselor's Office of the Central Ethnic Affairs Commission began to edit the translation series on ethnic issues and published them as internal materials. 1955 was edited by the research department and released to the public. 1958 The Translation Series on Ethnic Issues was renamed Ethnic Studies and edited and published by the Institute of Ethnic Studies of China Academy of Sciences. 1Since September 1955, the research department has published the Collection of Studies on Ethnic Issues in China from time to time, and has published many papers and investigation reports that have an impact on ethnic studies and ethnic work in New China. Translation Series on Ethnic Issues and Collection of Studies on Ethnic Issues in China were the most important journals of ethnology and ethnic theory in China at that time, and many people began to study and read them.

4. Other research and social work

After its establishment, the Research Department made great contributions to fully implementing the Party's policy of regional ethnic autonomy, rationalizing ethnic relations and successfully completing social reforms in ethnic minority areas, and became one of the most important research and consulting institutions for the country to formulate ethnic policies and handle ethnic affairs at that time. Many organs, organizations and individuals all over the country often write letters to inquire about ethnic issues and learn about ethnic policies and knowledge. The Central Ethnic Affairs Commission also forwarded relevant letters from various localities to the Research Department, asking relevant comrades to reply. Before the nationwide social and historical investigation of ethnic minorities in the early 1950s, the research department had sent people to ethnic minority areas for investigation many times. For example, Song Shuhua and others went to Gansu and Qinghai to inspect Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist temples in 1953. Hu Qingjun participated in the work of visiting Liangshan Yi people; Liu Yaohan made an investigation on the nationalities in Ailaoshan area in 1953. In addition to social surveys, scholars in research departments have also published a series of important research works, such as Jane Bozan and Wu Heng. They have read a lot of materials and compiled Biographies of Nationalities in Past Dynasties, which was published by Zhonghua Book Company. Shi, Sun Cheng, Liu Yaohan, Zhou Rucheng, Yang etc. The Index of Special Papers on China-Myanmar Border was compiled and published by the Research Department. In addition, Lin, Song Shuhua, Wang Furen, etc. also published A Survey of Tibetan Society, and Feng Jiasheng, Cheng Sunluo, Mu, etc. co-edited A Collection of Uygur Historical Materials. Scholars in the research department participate in international exchange activities while doing research. For example, in May 1956, Lin attended the "All-Soviet Ethnology Conference" held by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

5. The earliest recruitment of graduate students majoring in ethnology

During the period of 1956, a part of the research department set up the history department of the Central University for Nationalities, among which the first ethnology major in New China was established, enrolling associate doctoral students, which was the earliest unit to train ethnology graduate students in New China. The research department itself continues to engage in ethnology and other research work. 65438-0957 The Institute of Ethnology of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences (now the predecessor of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of China Academy of Social Sciences) was established. The Institute was formally established on June 23rd, 1958, and its basic team consists of members of the Research Department of the Central Institute for Nationalities.

6. The anti-rightist movement and the research department in the Cultural Revolution.

1957 after the anti-rightist movement began, the research department suffered a great impact. Wu Wenzao, Pan Guangdan and Yang Chengzhi, the first generation academic leaders in the fields of ethnology, sociology and anthropology, and Fei Xiaotong and Li Youyi, the second generation scholars, were all labeled as Rightists. Their research results were criticized as "bourgeois ethnology". Especially during the "Cultural Revolution", almost all scholars in the research department experienced the "Baptism" of "May 7th Cadre School", and the research and teaching of ethnology were interrupted, especially those scholars who were labeled as Rightists were persecuted, and Mr. Pan Guangdan was persecuted to death during the "Cultural Revolution".

By the end of the "Cultural Revolution", in order to compile the general situation of China's ethnic minorities, compile the research materials about the frontiers and nationalities, some staff of the research department working in cadre schools were transferred back to the school, and the research room of the Central University for Nationalities was established. Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong, Kuang Pingzhang and Huang Shuping are responsible for compiling, while Song Shuhua, Shi, Wang Furen, Chen Fengxian and Huang Shuping are responsible for compiling the profiles of various ethnic groups. 197465438+February, in the name of the research office, published a survey of ethnic minorities in China (draft for comments, volume 12), and edited and published an internal publication, excerpts and translations of ethnic issues (issue 13).

(b) Institute of Ethnic Studies and Department of Ethnic Studies

1980 The Research Department of the Central University for Nationalities was renamed as the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Central University for Nationalities, with Mr. Lin as the director, and began to recruit the first undergraduate students majoring in ethnology; In the early 1980s, it was the first in China to award master's and doctor's degrees in ethnology and national history, and began to recruit graduate students in ethnology, national history, world nationalities and other majors and research directions. In order to carry out academic exchanges and show the research results of the Institute for Nationalities, the Institute for Nationalities has published seven collections of essays on ethnic studies since 198 1 (the seventh collection was renamed as "Nationalities, Religion, History and Culture").

1983, the first ethnic department in China was established on the basis of the Institute of Ethnic Studies. Mr. Lin and Mr. Wang Furen successively served as department heads. 1985 in order to meet the needs of the country to create a national museum, the ethnology major has added a major of national cultural relics and museums, and enrolled undergraduates in this major. From 65438 to 0986, the Department of Ethnology merged with the Institute of Ethnology, and established a complete four-level talent training system from undergraduate, master's and doctoral to postdoctoral mobile stations. During the period of 1988, the State Education Commission confirmed the ethnology major of the Central University for Nationalities as a national key discipline, which was the only national key discipline at that time.

(3) Institute of Ethnology and School of Ethnology and Sociology.

1993, with the approval of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Institute of Ethnology of the Central University for Nationalities, the Institute of Ethnology, the Department of Tibetan Studies, the Museum, the Ministry of Ethnic Theory and Policy Education and the Rock Painting Research Center jointly established the Institute of Ethnology, which was officially listed in 1994. The leadership and evolution of the Institute are as follows:

1994- 1996

Dean: Song Shuhua,

Vice-presidents: (standing), Abe (deputy secretary of the Party Committee of our school), Yang.

Party Secretary: Bai Zhensheng

Deputy Secretary: Yang Feng

1996-2000

Dean: Yang

Vice President: Ang Ben (Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of our school), Secretary of the General Branch of the Golden Party:.

Deputy Secretaries: Yang Feng and Wu Xiaoyan.

2000-20 1 1 year

(renamed School of Ethnology and Sociology)

Dean: Yang

Vice Presidents: Jin, Chen Changping (2000-2002) and Zhang Haiyang (2002-2004).

Clerk: Wu Xiaoyan.

Deputy Secretary: Liu Mingxin

(Bao Zhiming served as vice president in 2004)

20 1 1 year-today

Dean: Ding Hong.

Vice Presidents: Su Faxiang and Dai Chengping

Clerk: Liu Mingxin

Deputy Secretary: Hu Huazheng

During the period of 1997, the master's degree and doctor's degree in anthropology were approved by the Ministry of Education, and the institute began to recruit doctoral students in this major. In the same year, we began to evaluate the majors of national colleges and universities on the website of the Ministry of Education, and the ethnology major was rated as the first in the national colleges and universities, and it has been preserved to this day.

In 2000, the Institute of Ethnology was renamed the Institute of Ethnology and Sociology, with Yang Ren as the president and Party branch secretary. At the same time, the Department of Sociology was established, and the sociology major was resumed. On 200 1, undergraduate students of this major were enrolled. In 2005, the doctoral program of ethnic sociology was approved by the degree office of the Ministry of Education and began to recruit doctoral students. At the same time, there is also a master's degree in sociology and a bachelor's degree in social work. Through the integration of subject resources, ethnology, sociology and museum science have all strengthened their strength to some extent. The School of Ethnology and Sociology has three doctoral programs in Ethnology, Anthropology and Ethnology Sociology, and five master programs in Ethnology, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology and Museology.