北京大学主编《中国社会科学手册》英文版即将出版

  为纪念中国改革开放40年，北京大学社会科学学部组织各社会科学院系学者，推出《改革开放四十年与中国社会科学》丛书系列（共9卷本），2020年开始已经由商务印书馆陆续出版。

在此基础上，2021年，北京大学、商务印书馆、施普林格·《自然》出版集团（Springer Nature）共同签订合约，拟出版《中国社会科学手册》英文版（Handbook of China Social Sciences）（共8卷本），列入帕尔格雷夫国际学术手册（The Palgrave Handbook of International Academic Research）系列。手册的英文翻译工作已于2022-2023年间完成，由出版社指定的外籍专家近日也完成了全部编校审定，今年5月份正式获得国际书号（ISBN978-981-97-4025-3），《手册》英文版进入出版程序中，预计年内、最早秋季出版。

《中国社会科学手册》（Handbook of China Social Sciences）英文出版，是我国社会科学与国际社会交流互鉴的系统尝试，它集中了北京大学多位知名学者撰写，各卷本展现并评估了不同专业的历史进展和学术贡献，是国际学者了解中国社会科学发展的基础文献，已经引起各方关注，对于让世界了解中国具有十分重要的意义。北京大学社会科学学部将持续推进后续工作，计划以每5年一次的频率更新手册。

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国际学者独立推荐意见

Review of Book Proposal on Handbook Series of China Social Sciences

I read this multi-volume book proposal with interest. I am familiar with most of the proposed editors of the volumes, so there is no need for me to wait for you to send me their cv.s. I am familiar with the general state of art in social sciences in China, as I have been publishing in academic journals and presses in China for the past decade.

I see a need for the proposed volumes. Social sciences have flourished in China for the past four decades, especially in those disciplines of economics, sociology, public administration, and to a lesser extent, political science. However, because of language barriers, much of what has been written in social sciences journals in China has seldom been made into other parts of the world. Take one area that I am most familiar with – the study of government behaviors at the intersection of sociology, public administration, and political science. In the past four decades, there has been a striving and rich literature on this topic published in China. These studies are much closer to the empirical ground and provided richer and more nuanced observations and theoretical explanations than their English counterpart. Other areas experienced similar situations, such as research on social movements and collective action in the Chinese context. However, these research findings have seldom been given their due attention outside the Chinese-language world. It is difficult to imagine that China is understood without the contribution of those scholars who have done the most in-depth research, whose research mostly published in Chinese. For this reason alone, the proposed volumes fill a much-needed niche. 

From the book proposal, my sense is that the volumes will serve as a good overview and survey of the related fields in social science research in China. I have not read the Chinese versions of the published series, so I cannot evaluate the quality of the work therein. The editors are leading scholars in their respective fields, so I have confidence in the project they undertake here. One problem in the past in similar projects is that the translation of the Chinese publications tends to be of poor quality, not only because of the translation skills but also due to differences in academic jargons used in different disciplines and between cultures. Much effort is needed to ensure that writing (translation) is accessible to the general readers interested in social sciences in China.

In terms of market and competition considerations, I am not aware of any similar volumes in publications. I think the readership will be mostly those scholars or students who are interested in social science research in China and specific information/knowledge about selected topics.

I would recommend that you seriously consider publishing the proposed reference as it stands. But I would also urge that great attention be given to the quality of translation (or rewriting) so that the contents can be rendered effectively and made accessible to the readers.

Xueguang Zhou

Professor of Sociology; Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and FSI Senior Fellow, Stanford University

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英文版编者信息

Editor in chief of the series

Hao Ping

Secretary of the CPC Peking University Committee and Chair of the Peking University Council. He has also been acting as a member of the 14th National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, and Vice Chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee. He previously served as president of the Beijing Foreign Studies University, vice minister of the Ministry of Education, president of the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, and president of Peking University. He specializes in historical studies and has published the following books: Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China, Sun Yat-sen and America, An Unfortunate Ending: John Leighton Stuart and China etc.

Chief editor of volume division

Yu Keping

Professor of School of Government and Research Center for Chinese Politics at Peking University. He previously served as the deputy director of Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, visiting professor of Free University of Berlin and senior researcher of Harvard University. His research interests are political philosophy, Chinese politics, globalization, civil society, government innovation etc. In 2003, he became the first batch of national candidates of the “New Century Talents Project”, and he was selected as one of the “100 Global Thinkers of 2011” by the Foreign Policy magazine. His representative works include Politics in Transitional China, Essays on the modernization of State Governance, Democracy in China etc.

Zhang Shouwen

Professor and president of Peking University Institute of Economic Law. His research covers economic law theories, financial law, tax law, social law, information law, competition law, international economic law etc. He concurrently serves as the president of the China Law Society Economic Law Research Center, the standing director of the China Law Society, the standing director of China Judicial Studies Association. He was awarded the American GE Economics Prize in 1995, China Modern Famous Jurist in 2005, 1st prize of the Fifth China Excellent Achievements in Research of Humanities and Social Sciences in University in 2009. He is the author of nearly 30 books including Market Economy and New Economic Law, Information Law, Principles of Taxation Law, Development Law etc.

Zhang Jing

Professor of Department of Sociology at Peking University. She was visiting scholar of The Australian National University, Harvard University and Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research and teaching focus on political sociology, Chinese society and social justice. She is the author of Problems of Rural Level Governance in China and Corporatism, which have been reprinted several times as contemporary sociological classics in China.

Yao Yang

Professor of China Center for Economic Research and the National School of Development at Peking University. His research interests include economic transition and development in China. He has published more than hundred research papers in international and domestic journals as well as several books on institutional economics and economic development in China. He is also a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers, including the Financial Times and the Project Syndicate. He was awarded the Sun Yefang Award in Economic Science in 2008 and 2014, and the Pu Shan Award in International Economics in 2008 and 2010.

Zheng Xiaoying

Professor of Institute for Global Health and Development and Institute of Population Research, Peking University. Her research covers a wide range of issues on Population Health in Life Course, Gerontology and Gerontology, disability prevention and rehabilitation of aging population. Based on interdisciplinary research that integrates population, environment, health, society and economy, she has made achievements in the field of population health and social-economic development in China, which were published in The Lancet, BMJ, PNAS et.al. With contribution to the population health and social development in poor areas of China, she was granted the TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize by the World Academy of Sciences (UN TWAS) in 2015 and awarded the HLHL Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award in 2022.

Chen Xiaoyu

Professor of Graduate School of Education at Peking University. Currently he also serves as the executive vice chairman of the Educational Economics Research Association of The Chinese Society of Education. He was visiting scholar of University of Minnesota and University of California, Berkeley, visiting research fellow of National Institute of Multimedia Education. His research and teaching focus on the costs and benefits of education, the equity and efficiency of education, and higher education finance. He was selected as a scholar of “Top 100-People Project in Social Science Theory” in Beijing. Research on China’s Educational Finance Policy is one of his representative works.

Lu Shaoyang

Professor of School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. He also serves as the Chairman of the Theoretical Review Committee at China Film Association, the member of the 2018-2022 National Teaching Guidance Committee for Journalism and Communication Majors under the Ministry of Education. His main research interests are media industry and policy, film and television culture, audio-visual language; and his teaching focus on history of film, culture and industry of film and television etc. His work Audio-visual Language, a textbook for students who major in media studies, is now in its 3rd edition.

Li Guangjian

Professor of Department of Information Management at Peking University. He is also editorial board member of several academic journals such as Library and Information Service, Information Science and Digital Library Forum. His research interests include information resource management and network information management technology. Information System in Library: Technology, Implementation and Application, and Introduction to Web Information System are two representative works among his publications.

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英文版译者信息

Guo Wei

Vice Dean and Professor at the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University. His research spans four interconnected areas: Population, Environment, Technology, and Society (PETS); Migration, Mobility, and Health; and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being. He has authored over 70 articles in prestigious journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), and Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI).

He Jun

Associate professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. She holds a Master of Arts in Bilingual Translation from the University of Westminster, and she has translated 19 books.

Shen Lei

Associate professor of linguistics at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University. She has been working with leading domestic and international publishers, such as The Commercial Press, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, Taylor & Francis, Sage Open, Springer Nature and others by translation and co-publishing academic books (from Chinese to English). Her representative translated works include Reported Speech in Chinese and English Newspapers, The Shire of Pearls, etc.

Cao Daqin

Director of the Office and an Associate Professor at the Silk Road Language Service Collaborative Innovation Center at Xi'an International Studies University in Xi’an. He holds a multidisciplinary academic background, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Jiangsu Ocean University (2006) and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Peking University (2013). Cao's main academic interests include computer-aided translation, patent translation, and fostering collaboration between academia and industry.

Dang Jun

Professor at School of Economics and Finance of Xi'an International Studies University,. Since 2006, he has published academic papers, monograph and translation works in international economics. He has been serving as an associate editorial board member of the International Journal of Industrial Organization Innovation since 2009. He specializes in international trade theory and policy, the “Belt and Road” international economic and trade cooperation, and country-regional researches.

Ma Yanqiang

He is currently an overseas professional translator for a subsidiary of China Minmetals. He has obtained TEM-8 and CATTI certificates, as well as numerous national-wide translation competition awards, and has translated three works totaling 750,000 words. His translation fields include social sciences, history and literature, international trade, culture going global, mining and construction projects, software and game localization, etc.

Zhang Chunjing

She has been working in Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard as an English-Chinese translator since graduating from Wuhan University of Technology back in 2002, providing professional translation and interpretation service. She has obtained the certificate of CATTI Translator Level II in 2014, and has also worked with translation companies on many projects ranging from social sciences, education, military equipment, machinery as well as railway vehicles etc.

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