定位中国 Positioning in China : A Clear Understanding of Our Times and Us

Current popular thinking features in not objective, illogical, blindly following or objecting to others. They think they are always right and refuse to listen to different opinions. The result is that we become impetuous. Approaches discussed in Positioning China are exactly objectivity and logic. This book will have an illuminative effect on us with regard to scientific thinking which has been forgotten by us since recovery of May Fourth Movement. According to Mao Yushi, well-known economist and winner of Milton Friedman Liberty Prize, if you were unfortunately born in China, you have already been positioned! If you were lucky enough to have been born in China, there may be the last chance for self positioning! Zhang Lifan, Famous historian, displays the ambition of comprehensively grasping China at current time in this book. What's more important, he establishes an equal, free and open research and teaching style from his original perspectives and by unique analysis. And according to He Weifang, well-known jurist and professor of Law School of Peking University, positioning of individuals and even the state in the society, history and the era has something in common with market position; we shall focus on overall situation, pay attention to strategies and the effect. Yu Jianrong, well-known sociologist and director of Social Problem Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, guides young people to think independently and shoulders social responsibilities; and he hopes college students could carry out life orientation for themselves combining needs of the era based on understanding of fundamental realities of China. Positioning of individuals and even the state in the society, history and the era has something in common with market position; we shall pay attention to strategies and the effect. Before stepping into the society, college students shall carry out design for themselves based on their talent and interests and according to needs of the era and the society in order to "e;make their capacity better adapt to the era them the others"e;. In this way, they could realize resonance and coincidence of individual value and social value to the largest extend and maximize individual and social values.