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Institute of Contemporary Socialism (ICS), Shandong University

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Address: Huagang yuan, Qingdao campus, Shandong University, No. 72, Binhai Road, Ao Shan Wei Street, Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237

The Institute of Contemporary Socialism of Shandong University was founded in 1983. In October 2000, it was approved as a key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. It stands out among the domestic contemporary socialism research institutes as a leading professional institute. 

The Institute consists of:

l The Contemporary Socialism Theory Research Lab

l The Research Center of the Socialist Party Politics Development with Chinese Characteristics

l United Front Research Center

l The Contemporary Chinese Grassroots Ideology Research Center,

l The “Journal of Contemporary World Socialism”

l “Socialism Research Almanac” Editorial Department. 

It integrates the disciplines such as scientific socialism and international communist movement, history of the Communist Party of China (including the party's construction), the united front and localisation of Marxism in China, and complements with the related disciplines like political science theory, international politics and international relations and public management. It is worth mentioning that in 2002 the discipline of scientific socialism and international communist movement was awarded as the national key discipline. Issues of Contemporary World Socialism has been selected in the "national Chinese core journals" since 1997 and has been in CSSCI since 2004.

Profile of the institute:

There are 45 researchers in the Institute, 7 of whom are full-time researchers, 15 are part-time researchers at Shandong University, and the rest are part-time researchers from other affiliations. These researchers demonstrate their specialization in the study of world socialism theory and movement history, scientific socialism, contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union’s socialism, the study of West Europe’s socialist party’s democratic socialism and North Europe’s mode, the study of green party and eco-socialism, the comparative study of the contemporary socialism development modes of Vietnam, Laos, DPRK and Cuba, the study of the socialism and left-wing social movement in Latin America, the study of party politics and left-wing social movement in South Asia, as well as the study of contemporary capitalism.

The Institute is open and welcoming. A significant number of researchers from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Central China Normal University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other domestic institutes of higher education have directed and participated in many major projects of the Institute. The academic communication with overseas institutes and scholars is also constant, such as Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies of Harvard University, Center for Chinese Studies of UC Berkeley and so on.

The Institute covers an area of 610 square meters of office space, and it owns 27,714 Chinese books, 5510 foreign language books and 330 types of Chinese and foreign language periodicals, with a full range of modern office equipment and excellent scientific research conditions.

In the "thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the Institute will devote itself mainly to the research direction of "World Socialism and Contemporary China's Development in the 21st Century", expand the new field of "Comparative Study of International CPC and World Socialism", so as to provide resources and platforms of communication and interaction for domestic and foreign scholars.

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Address: Huagang yuan, Qingdao campus, Shandong University, No. 72, Binhai Road, Ao Shan Wei Street, Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237


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