Essentials of Governance: Twelve Lectures on Social Contradictions was published by Shandong Peopleâs Publishing House in 2017. The English translation received funding from China Classics International in 2019.
I have used English editions of texts as the source for quotations in this work wherever possible. If no English edition of a text was available, I translated the quotations from the Chinese edition myself.
I would like to express my gratitude to Kerry Allen and Malcolm Thompson for their meticulous editing and proofreading, and to Caroline Fenn for reading chapters one, four, seven, eleven, and twelve and giving me the benefit of her linguistic advice.
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 Chinaâs Talent Project award, a Philosophy and Social Science leader during Chinaâs 10,000 Talented People Project in 2016, and an education training specialist at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Professor Wuâs research focuses on social justice, social development, and social contradictions. He has published over 200 essays in important academic journals such as âChinese Social Scienceâ (English and Chinese versions), âSociology Research,â âPhilosophy Research,â âScience and Technology Herald,â âMarxist Research,â and âPopulation Research.â He has also published over 100 newspaper articles in Peopleâs 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 Chinaâs 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 Administrationâs fourth âThree Types of One Hundred Original Books Publishing Awardâ in 2013). In 1994 he won the Shandong Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.
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.
About the Reviser
Kerry Allen is a journalist and China specialist based in the UK.