Contemporary Value Systems in China

This work illustrates China’s values and how they are practiced. After introducing readers to the theories, systematical structure, historical status, and influence of traditional Chinese values, it points out major developmental trends in connection with modernization. Further, it explores the significance of the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese values and argues that these values can be divided into three layers: values-based goals of national development, Chinese values concepts, and norms of values in a civil society. On this basis, it subsequently interprets the core socialist values “Prosperity, Democracy, Civility and Harmony,” the value concepts “Freedom, Equality, Justice and Rule of Law” and values-based norms “Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity and Friendship.”

Zhen ?Han, born in 1958, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, secretary of the CPC Committee of Beijing Foreign Studies University, former vice president of Beijing Normal University and president of Beijing Foreign Studies University, commissioner of the Central Marxist Theoretical Research and Construction of the Advisory Committee, ministry of Education and Social Science Committee, chairman of Universities Philosophy Teaching Steering Committee, vice president of Beijing Philosophy Association, He’s also the chief editor of the Frontiers in China(in English), International BBS. His major works include Introduction to Western Philosophy of History, The Created Existence, Reconstruction of faith for the Rationalism, Identity of Culture and Nation in the Era of Globalization, Five Lectures of Socialist Core Values, New Socialist Core Values, Value of the Education and Education of Value. His translation works are Sources of the Self, History and Tropology, etc..