In June 2017, the work of Dr. Bas van Leeuwen and Prof. Dr. Xu Yi on the “Calculation China’s Historical Economic Aggregate: A GDP-centered Overview” has been published in the first Issue of a new bulletin in China, “Big Data and the Study of Chinese History“. This bulletin is published by Social Science Academic Press, and presented by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of History and , which are both from Central China Normal University, which is also known as Huazhong Normal University.
Annually circa 10 scholars who have expertise on quantitative history research are invited to speak in the lecture series “Big Data and the Study of Chinese History” in Central China Normal University. This bulletin is a collection of relevant researches and speeches.