Today, CHF celebrates its 4th year Birthday.
I'm please to inform you that China History Forum is 4 years old now. We were officially opened on the 1st of June 2004 and today, we have just passed our 4th year of running. We have gone quite a long way in being a leading premier online portal for learning and discussing chinese history/culture. Today, our reputation is not just known across the internet, it is also well-known in the academic circles in the university, esp. history departments, asian studies or chinese studies (sinology) department.
On behalf of all staffs, I would like to thank all members and staffs for the continuous support and contribution to this great community.
Overview of CHF
Back in 2006, we have run into quite a number of adminstration problems when large influx of extremists and troublemakers used to disrupt the peace in CHF. This was quite a common problem faced by online forum. But by late 2006, we have managed to solve this problem through the introduction of our imperial exam system. By 2007, we have managed to keep out these troublemakers and enabled peace to be effected across CHF. By second half of 2007, the exemption plan was further introduced to allow university academics (Professor), talented artist and beginners to participate in the forum without going through the exams.
This reform in our exam policy in 2007 has achieved a number of targets:
1. The quality of posting is well-maintained or even refined
2. More members are now educated in Chinese History/Culture as they participate in the studying process in order to become scholar members.
3. Beginners no longer need to worry about exams in order to participate in CHF because of exemption plan
4. Specialists can come to CHF to participate without the need to sit for exams.
In the first half of 2008, we have also achieved two major feats:
1. Firstly, the Han Lin Academy of China History Forum has finally completed the design of our Juren exam, the next higher level exam after Xiucai Exam. To date, there are already more than 20 Juren Scholars in CHF.
2. The Editorial Board was officially established and became part of CHF staffs. A reform in administration was undertaken and Kaiselin was appointed to take charge as Chief Editor of the editorial board. Other than "newsletter", a new online academic journal called 'Han Lin Journal' was launched . So far, Kaiselin and her team of editors/columnists have done a very good job in the research, editing and publishing of these works. Two editions of publishing for online academic journal have already been done and they represent marks of high quality writing and research undertaken by CHF (kudos and thanks to Kaiselin and her team)
CHF's membership continued to increase at steady rate and more new scholar members are produced. To date, we already have more than 400 Xiucai scholars in CHF and this figure is likely to increase further.
Although traffic has dropped over the past few weeks (due to seasonal fluctuations arisen from school holiday), it is predicted to pick up momentum after June this year. CHF does not encounter any major problems and the prospect for the next half of year looks to be good.
Thank You
General Zhaoyun
Chief Administrator
China History Forum
Happy Birthday to China History Forum!
