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Books offer a glimpse of China in 2014

By Mei Jia and Sun Ye ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-01-07 09:52:35

Society/Economy

For anyone keen on keeping abreast of China's economy and society, Foreign Languages Press has prepared a series of books, from descriptive to analytical, to give readers an insight into this complex nation.

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The publishing house will put forward translated documents (in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Arabic) assembled from the Third Plenary Session of 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China last year, a meeting that decided on policies which will shape the nation.

Following the collection of documents, there will be volumes of in-depth analysis from experts in related fields, interpreting how the new reforms will change the country.

Chinese Dream, the phrase put forward by President Xi Jinping last year, is a concept that has slowly caught on, and is changing, the mindset of many Chinese. FLP has put together six books to illustrate the dream - including one focused on migrant workers and urbanization, one on the "outgoing" enterprises and one on the country's go-west campaign.

Understanding China will give readers an overview of China's politics and economic. One volume will elaborate on the governing principles of the Communist Party of China, deciphering the Party's guiding theories and its management experience. Another volume will explain the country's economic transformation.

Zhu Guanglei, a celebrated researcher of political science at Nankai University, will release a book looking at "how the Chinese government operates".

Springer continues to discover Chinese academic achievements that are worthy of translation to English. The publishing company has two interesting new titles set of release in 2014.

One is Data You Need to Know About China: Research Report of China Household Finance Survey 2012. Based on the first and only nationally representative survey on household finance in China conducted in 2011, covering 29,000 individuals and 8,438 households, the book offers "high-quality and well-analyzed data for academic research and policymaking".

Another is Human Rights Protection System in China, which the author Sun Pinghua hopes will allow readers to gain a better view of the theory and practice of human rights protection in the Chinese context.