Ouyang Xuemei, director of the Cultural History Research Office of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), member of the academic committee of the Institute and professor at the CASS Graduate School, has long served as the chief researcher of innovative research projects of CASS, and a member of the Expert Steering Committee of Thematic Creation Projects of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Her representative works include A Brief Introduction to the Cultural Construction of the People s Republic of China, 70-Year Socialist Culture Construction of the People s Republic of China and Its Experience and The Cultural History of the People s Republic of China (1949–2019).
文化是一个、一个民族的灵魂。中国高度重视中国特色社会主义文化建设。一种具有特殊时代魅力的中国文化正在形成。
Culture is the soul of a country or a nation. China attaches great importance to the development of socialist culture as it takes shape with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The Contemporary China Series includes eit ooks, based on distinct Chinese values, reveals how China promotes coordinated economic, political, cultural, social and ecological advancement. The series comprehensively introduces the basic situation of contemporary China and the developmenpthf socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Contemporary China's culture is derive fo traditional culture and rooted in contemporary practice. Presenting a general picture of cultural develomn i the People's Republic of China, the book mainly focuses on China's ideological and cultural building, cultural rights and interests, new moral and ethical trends, development of literature, art, philosophy and social sciences, advancement of education and technology, cultural heritage protection and inheritance, development of religious culture, contemporary cultural industry and foreign cultural exchanges in the 21st century.