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Call for Papers: National Forum for Young Marxist Scholars (2016)

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Since the 18th Party Congress [1], the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary has unswervingly upheld and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics. Brave in practice and adept at innovation, the Committee has deepened its understanding of the laws of governance by a communist party, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of the development of human society [2]. It has formed a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for state governance [3]. In order to deeply learn, research, and publicize Xi Jinping’s new ideas regarding state governance, the Organizing Committee of the National Forum for Young Marxist Scholars intends to hold the "Research on Xi Jinping's Thought on State Governance" forum at Soochow University in mid-to-late May 2016.

The reference topics for the call for papers are as follows:

  1. New concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for state governance.
  2. Upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and state governance.
  3. Ideological construction and state governance.
  4. Comprehensively and strictly governing the Party and state governance.
  5. Law-based governance and state governance.
  6. Reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state governance.
  7. Foreign relations and state governance.
  8. The "Belt and Road" initiative [4] and state governance.

All submitted papers must be original, unpublished works of no more than 8,000 characters, including an abstract, keywords, and author biography. Submissions should include the author's gender, age, professional title, affiliation, address, contact phone number, email, and postal code. Please send hard copies via EMS to: Yang Jing or Hao Yunme, Institute of Marxism Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), No. 5 Jianguomennei Street, Beijing (Postal Code: 100732). Please ensure the envelope is marked "National Forum for Young Marxist Scholars (2016)."

Electronic versions should be sent simultaneously to: qmqlt_2014@163.com and haoym1668@163.com. Contact numbers: (010) 85196310, 85196328. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2016.

Following expert review of all submissions, invitations to attend the forum will be sent to the authors of selected papers.

Hosts: Institute of Marxism Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); Soochow University. Organizers: School of Marxism, Soochow University; Editorial Department of Marxist Studies (Makesizhuyi yanjiu). December 2015.