Essentials of Governance:Twelve Lectures on Social Contradictions in China

丛编：The Social Sciences of Practice, 卷： 8

著者： Zhongmin WU

Translator: Jun HE

There are twelve lectures in this book. The theoretical section addresses the concept of social contradictions, their various forms and influencing factors, their dual functions and how they aid social development. The author then compares the characteristics of contradictions in traditional and modern society, and analyzes how their special laws have become applicable during periods of transition in contemporary Chinese society. He interprets the contradictions between the public and officials, the rich and the poor, and labor and capital. He also looks at social contradictions in the internet era. He finally analyzes the possibility of social unrest in China and proposes how to actively and effectively deal with social contradictions. His study of social contradictions is of theoretical and practical significance.

About the Author

Wu Zhongmin is a professor at the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Party School. He is also deputy director of the Department of Science and Education, a doctoral supervisor, the 1997 winner of the China’s Talent Project award, a Philosophy and Social Science leader during China’s 10,000 Talented People Project in 2016, and an education training specialist at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Professor Wu’s research focuses on social justice, social development, and social contradictions. He has published over 200 essays in important academic journals such as “Chinese Social Science” (English and Chinese versions), “Sociology Research,” “Philosophy Research,” “Science and Technology Herald,” “Marxist Research,” and “Population Research.” He has also published over 100 newspaper articles in People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, and Southern Weekend. His main works include: On Social Justice, Towards a Just Chinese Society, The Progressive Model and Effective Development, and China’s Theory of Social Development.

His research papers are widely reprinted and broadly cited. He was nominated for the first China Publishing Government Book Award in 2007 and the China Press and Publication Administration’s fourth “Three Types of One Hundred Original Books Publishing Award” in 2013). In 1994 he won the Shandong Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.

About the Translator

He Jun is a lecturer at the East China University of Science and Technology, China. She holds a Master of Arts in Bilingual Translation from the University of Westminster, and she has translated 17 books.

Contents

Series Editor’s Note

Translator’s Note

Lecture 1 Not All Contradictions in Society Are Social Contradictions

Lecture 2 The Important Influence of Non-material Interest Factors on Social Contradictions

Lecture 3 The Important Influence of the Structure of Social Power Contrasts on Social Contradictions

Lecture 4 How Social Contradictions Force Social Development

Lecture 5 A Comparison of the Contradiction Characteristics in Traditional and Modern Society

Lecture 6 Key Features of Social Contradictions in Modern China

Lecture 7 Key Features of “Public versus Officials” Contradictions in Modern China

Lecture 8 Key Features of Contradictions between Rich and Poor in Contemporary China

Lecture 9 Key Features of Contradictions between Labor and Capital in Contemporary China

Lecture 10 Key Features of Social Contradictions in the Internet Era

Lecture 11 The Possibility of Social Unrest in China

Lecture 12 Actively and Effectively Dealing with Social Contradictions

Index