2004: Cultural China

Author: Zhang Ning, Zhang Hong (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The 21st century China has entered a new historical period. The economy is developing rapidly, life is changing every day, culture is intermingling, and the reform wave rolling across the Chinese mainland provides the world with an image and concrete, practical and vivid, profound and complex "contemporary history" of China's new economic and cultural form. Faced with this vibrant and diverse social landscape, people urgently want to know what is happening, what is contained, what is being thought about, and what is being highlighted in China, and what all of this means for the future of China and the world, as well as what kind of impact it will have. In light of this, our Guangdong Publishing Group has meticulously planned and organized the publication of this "Annual China Read Series." The "Annual China Read Series" divides historical spans by year, compiling important texts, major events, hot topics, debate links, and expert comments in China's humanities, education, economy, science and technology, culture, and other fields into series of books such as "Humanities China," "Education China," "Science and Technology China," "Economy China," and "Culture China." It aims to showcase the highlights of China in that year from a global perspective and local character, with multi-perspectives and multi-levels, examine the issues of China in that year, and compile the year-end summary into books, which will be released to readers at the beginning of the following year. We strive to: distill, edit, and refine the scattered historical feelings, observations, and experiences, using sharp insights, thorough understanding, and multi-dimensional perspectives to combine, overlap, and convey the psychological, economic, cultural, technological, and educational information of China's history, culture, society, and era in that year. We focus on: blending book and magazine characteristics, complementing news and documentation, and unifying thoughtfulness and readability; integrating text and images, background links, and concise comments to spark intellectual sparks and inspire thinking; highlighting small events in the large society and big issues in small details, with the big encompassing the small and the small revealing the big. We do not aim for comprehensiveness but to pinpoint the key issues, in order to highlight the cultural tension full of impact and radiation.