20th Century Chinese Social Sciences. Journalism Volume

Author: Zhao Kai
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Over a century of development in Chinese social sciences has provided a strong spiritual driving force and a solid spiritual support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In this century, Chinese social sciences have undergone three large-scale reassessments of preceding academic, intellectual, and cultural traditions. Each reassessment not only brought a major leap forward in social sciences but also led to a widespread ideological liberation and a significant improvement in the general quality of the populace. In fact, this reassessment process continues to this day. This has shaped the character of Chinese social sciences—combining progressiveness, diversity, and adaptability. Over the past century, each reassessment has constructed a new knowledge system, categories, concepts, discourse systems, and even paradigm frameworks for China, providing new theoretical foundations and action plans for the nation's survival, the transformation of Chinese civilization, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the development of Chinese revolution and modernization. As a result, Chinese social sciences have moved into society and among the people, permeating their entire spiritual and material lives, as well as comprehensive social transformations.
The book provides detailed materials and comprehensively reviews the development of Chinese journalism over the 20th century. It elaborates on the progress and achievements of various branches of Chinese journalism during this period, outlines major academic debates, and introduces the educational and research institutions, academic associations, publications, and international academic exchanges in Chinese journalism. At the end of the book, there is a chronology of major events in the development of Chinese journalism in the 20th century. This book is an academic work that systematically summarizes the century-long journey of Chinese journalism in the 20th century.