The surging news reporter learned from the relevant aspects of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that Comrade Xu Chongwen, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Honorary Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a retired researcher of the Institute of Philosophy, the former director of the Research Office of the History of Marxist Philosophy, a doctoral supervisor, and an expert enjoying special allowances, died in Beijing on the evening of February 26, 2024, at the age of 94.
According to public information, Xu Chongwen, born in July 1930, is a native of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Honorary Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a consultant of the Chinese Society of Scientific Socialism, an academic consultant of the Beijing Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a distinguished researcher of the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since 1991, he has enjoyed *** special allowance.
Xu Chongwen graduated from the Law School of Soochow University in Shanghai in 1952 and served as a judge of the People's Court and a procurator of the People's Procuratorate. In 1956, he was admitted to the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate doctoral student, and after staying there, he successively engaged in the research of historical materialism, the history of Marxist philosophy, modern Western philosophy, Western Marxism, democratic socialism, advanced theory and scientific socialism.
Xu Chongwen's main works include Western Marxism, Research on Western Marxist Theory, Analysis of Democratic Socialism, Review of the Frankfurt School, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Existentialist Philosophy, Camus's Philosophy of Absurdity, Some Problems of Contemporary Socialism: The Historical Experience of International Socialism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Socialism and Capitalism at the Turn of the Century, The Concept of Socialism of Major Contemporary Foreign Schools, More than 20 titles, such as "New Changes in Contemporary Capitalism", "China's Path of Peaceful Development", "Global Issues and the "Human Dilemma", and Research on the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", have published more than 400 academic articles; He is the chief editor of "Foreign Marxism and Socialism Research Series" (42 titles) and "Contemporary Capitalism Research Series" (23 titles).
Xu Chongwen has won the "Five One Project" Award (three times) of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, the first, second and third China Outstanding Publication (Book) Awards, the National Social Science ** Project Outstanding Achievement Award, and a monograph was selected for the second "Three Hundred" Original Book Publishing Project of the General Administration of Press and Publication, and the first Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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