Latin American Studies: Tracing the of History

Author: Shiji Society
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Latin American Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute launched the "Latin American Studies Series" and selected this book, "Latin American Studies: Tracing the Trajectory of History," as the foundational volume of the series, which holds great significance. The book essentially summarizes the development processes of politics, economy, diplomacy, and society in Latin America over the past half-century, reflecting the dynamic and hot issues of the time from different perspectives. It serves as a window for the academic community to understand and study Latin America; through this window, readers can gain a basic understanding of the trajectory of Latin American development over the past half-century. The book essentially outlines the general framework of Chinese Latin American studies over the past half-century: it includes macro-level research on the historical panorama of "independence and liberation of Afro-Asian-Latin American countries" in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as ideological explorations during the heyday of economic and social thought in the 1970s; it features detailed analyses of major global events such as the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, as well as research on the world-shaking financial crises that occurred in the 1990s and early 21st century; it includes decades of research on the long-term tracking of Cuban socialism, as well as comparative analyses of Latin American development models and East Asian development models. In short, this book is a microcosm of Chinese Latin American studies over the past half-century, an original record of "Latin American studies in China," and a "historical archive" for several generations of scholars at the Latin American Research Institute.