Construction of Value Philosophy in Contemporary China

About Deshun Li

Deshun Li born in 1945 is a tenured professor of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) doctoral supervisor honorary dean of the School of Humanities of CUPL and concurrently advisor of China Dialectical Materialism Research Association honorary president of China Value Philosophy Research Association etc. In addition he has been employed as visiting professor and special researcher in many domestic universities and scientific research institutions and as an editorial board member of quite a few journals and magazines. As a distinguished scholar in Marxist philosophy values contemporary culture and culture of the rule of law he has published more than ten popular monographs such as Value Theory: A Research into Subjectivity On Chinese Culture An Outline of Cultural Construction On Deng Xiaoping's Thought of Values of the Peoples Subjectivity Towards Democracy and Rule of Law: On the Value System of Contemporary Chinese Political Civilization On Rule of Law etc. some of which have won China Book Prize Outstanding Achievement Prize of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Beijing National Award for Excellent Ideological and Theoretical Readings for Young People National Five Top Project and so on. The first two have been translated into English and published by Springer. Meanwhile he has published over 100 articles in many core journals and newspapers such as On Issues about Socialist Core Values Understanding Traditional Culture with Scientism Change and Challenge for Philosophical Thinking in the Contemporary Era Adaptation to Change and China Traditional Values On the Idea ofTaking the People as the Subjectin Contemporary China The End of Value DogmatismSandels Theory of Justice in View ofThe Trolley Problem. He is also the editor in chief of 11 books such as On the Culture of Rule of Law in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Values of Our Times: Contemporary Axiological Research in China (by Springer) Introduction to Philosophy On Marxist Philosophy Domain and On Values etc. Due to his distinguished achievements he has been invited to give lectures in Hitotsubashi University Toyo Philosophy Research Institute Philosophy Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences and other associations in Italy and Hong Kong. As an expert with outstanding contributions he has enjoyed the special government allowance of the State Council from 1992.