Preparatory units for the Conference were: the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica and the Academia Historica, which collect data on government; the Kuomintang Party History Commission, which preserves historical documents from the time of the revolution to the present; and the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University, famous for its mainland studies.
在這次的會議中，我國無論在海內或海外，對現代史有研究、有成就的歷史學者大多參加了討論。他們所發表的成熟論文與精闢見解，使國際學人對我國史學界的學術水準刮目相看。許多外國學者在綜合座談中，誠摯地表示：希望這個討論會結束之後，又是一個學術交流的真正開始。