20th Century Chinese Social Sciences (Journalism Volume)

Author: Zhao Kai et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Over a century of development in Chinese social sciences has provided a strong spiritual impetus for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and has established a solid spiritual pillar. During this century, Chinese social sciences have undergone three large-scale reassessments of preceding academic, intellectual, and cultural traditions. Each reassessment has not only brought about a significant leap forward in social sciences but also a widespread ideological liberation and a broad improvement in public literacy. In fact, this reassessment process continues to this day. This has shaped the character of Chinese social sciences—combining timeliness, progressiveness, and diversity. Over the past century, each reassessment has constructed a new knowledge system, new categories, concepts, discourses, and even paradigm systems for China, providing new theoretical foundations and action plans for China's survival and rescue, the transformation of Chinese civilization, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the development of China's revolution and modernization. Chinese social sciences have thus moved into society and among the people, permeating people's entire spiritual and material lives and penetrating into the comprehensive transformation of social systems.
The book provides detailed materials and comprehensively reviews the development of Chinese journalism over the past century. It elaborates on the progress and achievements of various branches of Chinese journalism during this period, outlines the major academic debates in Chinese journalism, and introduces the educational and research institutions, academic associations, publications, and international academic exchanges in Chinese journalism during this time. At the end of the book 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 development of Chinese journalism in the 20th century.