Peking University History Department, founded in 1899, is the earliest national historical institution of higher learning in modern China. There are eight two disciplines in the department, including world history, ancient history of China, modern history of China, historical geography, special history, historical theory and history, historical philology and archaeology. It has two national key disciplines, 1 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, 1 National Basic Science Research and Teaching Staff Training Base, 1 History Postdoctoral Mobile Station. * * * scientific research entities directly under the Ministry 1 each, 2 professional libraries, 200,000 volumes and rare books, and historical literature digital laboratory 1 each.