Biographical note

Jiang Hui is Vice President, Member of the leading Party members' group of CASS, Director and Party Secretary of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, President, Professor, and PhD Supervisor of the Institute of Marxist Studies. He also serves as Executive Director of the CASS-based Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Director of the Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and Deputy Director of the World Socialism Research Center. During the years, Jiang has won numerous eminent awards and titles, including "National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions", Candidates for "National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project," Recipients of the "Special Allowances from the State Council," Leading Scholars in Philosophy and Social Sciences under the National "Ten Thousand Plan," a member of the Specialists Committee of the Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project of the Central Committee, a member of Discipline Appraisal Group of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council and so on. Jiang Hui has long engaged himself in studies of Marxist theory, scientific socialism, international communist movements, as well as contemporary Marxism and socialism. Hitherto, he has published numerous manuscripts including: Transformations of Communist Parties in Developed European Countries (????????????), Contemporary Studies on Western Working Classes (??????????), Latest Developments in Contemporary World Socialism (????????????), Some Socialist Thoughts in the Western World (????????????), etc. He is the co-translator of One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. He has also published over 200 research articles. Some of them are: Opportunities and Challenges Faced by World Socialism, World Socialism in the 21st Century: New Structure, New Features, and New Trends, On the Class Issue of Contemporary Capitalism, etc. Jiang is widely influential in the field of international communist, socialist and Marxist studies, and has made significant contributions to the interpretation of Marxism in contemporary China and in the 21st century.