Annual Chinese Reading Series---2004 Culture China

Author: Zhang Ning / Zhang Hong, Editors-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The 21st century China has entered a new historical period. The economy has developed rapidly, life has been constantly changing, and cultures have been intermingling. The roaring reform wave rolling across the vast Chinese land has provided the world with an image and concrete, practical and vivid, profound and complex "contemporary history" of the new form of China's economy and culture. Faced with this vibrant and dynamic 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 these changes mean for the future of China and the world, as well as what kind of impact they will have. In light of this, 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." The aim is to showcase the highlights of the year's China from a global perspective and local character, with multi-faceted and multi-level perspectives, and to review the issues of the year by the end of the year, with the books being released at the beginning of the following year. We strive to: distill, edit, and refine scattered historical perceptions, 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 the year. We focus on: blending book-like and magazine-like qualities, 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 that is full of impact and radiation.