On China’s History of Modernization: The Institutionalization of Socialism in China

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of China’s socialist institutional construction respectively. Taking time as the warp and events as the weft, it tries to summarize the fundamental changes across the past 200 years in China, which the author believes have been a glorious journey from poverty and weakness to rejuvenation. In context, this book tries to rationalize the formation of the governing laws of the Communist Party of China, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of human historical development. It aims to provide a perspective for the international community to understand China’s fundamental ideal of peaceful development.

Li Jie is distinguished professor of School of Marxism, Tsinghua University. He has served as deputy director of Documentation Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, vice president of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies and president of Qiushi magazine. His main research fields are the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s life and thought, and Marxismsinicization, etc. He has published monographs such as ＂Mao Zedong’s Historical Contribution to the People’s Republic of China,＂ ＂Mao Zedong and Internal Affairs and Diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China,＂ ＂How did the New Leap of Marxism Sinicization Come,＂ and ＂China has a Mao Zedong.＂