Solution to the Centennial Puzzle - New Perspectives on Social Reform and Opening-Up

Author: Li Hengrui, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: Overall, the book exhibits the following characteristics: First, it has a clear theme, strong sense of the times, and highlights the main melody. The author believes that Deng Xiaoping's thought on reform and opening-up is not only an important part and distinctive feature of Deng Xiaoping Theory but also an inheritance, application, and development of Marxism's social reform and opening-up perspective in the new era. The book reflects on the practical experience of reform and opening-up from the perspective of disciplinary theoretical construction, both sorting out the reform and opening-up thoughts of Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc., and systematically elaborating Deng Xiaoping's view on reform and opening-up, which helps to enhance people's awareness of participating in reform and opening-up. Second, the content is comprehensive and systematic, with rigorous and clear logic. The book covers the essence, subjective and objective conditions, strategic framework, methods, approaches, and characteristics of reform and opening-up, especially offering insightful discussions and analyses of the policies and development trends of reform and opening-up in contemporary society. The author's basic approach to researching and elaborating on social reform and opening-up theory starts with the theory and methods of social structure, analyzes its structural elements, then elaborates on the content, form, process, laws, and policies of social reform and opening-up, and finally concludes with the issue of social development. Third, the perspective is broad, the methods are innovative, and theory is closely linked to practice. The author positions social reform and opening-up as a universal issue in the development of world history, studying both the "general" patterns of reform and opening-up in human society and the "specific" and "particular" patterns in socialist and Chinese societies, with a focus on exploring the laws and methods of reform and opening-up. At the same time, it emphasizes theoretical reflection and summarization of China's practical experience in reform and opening-up, thinking, understanding, and demonstrating social reform and opening-up theory with the problems encountered in contemporary society.