2014年12月12日至15日,由苏州大学社会学院主办的第三届中国近代交通社会史国际学术研讨会在江苏苏州召开。来自上海、北京、江苏、天津、安徽、河南、四川、吉林等省高等院校和科研院所以及韩国仁川大学的70余位专家学者参加了本次会议,提交论文60余篇。与会学者围绕近代中国路建设及相关问题、铁路与近代中国社会变迁、与铁路相关的人物、群体与事件等方面展开深入研讨,在多个研究领域取得了新 From December 12 to December 15, 2014, the 3rd International Symposium on Social History of Modern Chinese Transportation was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Soochow University. More than 70 experts and scholars from universities and research institutes in Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Tianjin, Anhui, Henan, Sichuan and Jilin provinces as well as Incheon University in South Korea attended the conference and submitted over 60 papers. Participants and scholars made in-depth discussions on the construction of modern China’s roads and related issues, the railway and the social changes in modern China, railway-related people, groups and events, and made new research in various fields