May 21, 2013, Professor Xia Yafeng gave us a lecture. Professor Xia is the Senior Fellow of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and adjunct professor of the Cold War International History Research Center of East China Normal University, He made two lectures to the teachers and students of Center for History of World Civilizations, the titles are “Western research on the detente of China-US relations in the 1970s”and “twenty-first century the rise of China and the United States’ reaction”. Lectures were chaired by Professor Wang Jinxin, director of Center for History of World Civilizations.