欧阳雪梅，中国社会科学院当代中国研究所研究员、文化史研究室主任。主要从事当代文化、中华人民共和国史、近现代人物等研究。主持和参加多项省部级科研课题，著有《毛泽东刘少奇强国富民思想比较研究》《宋美龄外交生涯》等。

　　Ouyang Xuemei, research fellow and director of Cultural History Research Office at the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, CASS, is mainly engaged in researches on contemporary culture, history of the People’s Republic of China and contemporary and modern personages. She presided over and attended ministerial scientific researches and authored Comparative Researches on Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi’s Theories on Prospering State and People and The Diplomatic Career of Soong May-ling.

　“当代中国”系列丛书重点向国外读者介绍中国道路、中国制度、中国思想、中国文化等，以满足国外读者了解当代中国国情的需要。编委会和作者队伍由来自当代中国研究所、中共中央党史研究室、北京大学、中国人民大学等机构的专家组成。丛书以鲜明的中国价值理念为理论基础，对外介绍当代中国的基本情况和中国特色社会主义发展道路。

　当代中国文化根植于中华传统文化的沃土，立足于当代社会。中国将文化建设纳入中国特色社会主义事业总体布局，推动中华文化的现代化转换。一种具有特殊时代魅力的中国文化正在形成。本书重点介绍新世纪以来中国的思想文化建设、人民文化权益的保障，新道德、新风尚的铸造，文学艺术的发展，教育、科技、哲学社会科学的进步，文化遗产的保护传承、宗教文化发展的现状、文化产业的格局以及对外文化交流的状况，等等。

The Contemporary China Series focuses on introducing the ways, systems, thoughts and charm of China to foreign readers who are interested in contemporary situation of China. 

With impressive Chinese values as the theoretical basis, the eight-volume series, covering the overall strategies on the five construction aspects, namely, economy, politics, culture, society and ecological civilization, elaborated in the Report of the 18th CPC National Congress, gives a comprehensive introduction to the general situation of main fields of contemporary China and the socialist development road with Chinese characteristics, and establishes a good country image.   

Members of the editorial committee and authors are experts from the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee, Peking University and Renmin University of China etc.

The series’ targeted readership includes foreign adults who pay close attention to China’s status quo and future and hope to learn about the country, and extensive Chinese readers as well. The series can also serve as a reference book for foreign students who are learning Chinese language and culture to study China’s contemporary situation and development.

　Contemporary Chinese culture, stemming from brilliant Chinese traditional culture, is established in modern society. China is driving the modernization of Chinese culture through bringing cultural development into her overall strategy on the socialism with Chinese characteristics. The Chinese culture with the special charm of the era is taking into shape. The book mainly introduces China’s thought and culture development, the protection of people’s culture rights and interests, the establishment of new moralities and customs, the development of culture and art, the progress of education, sci-tech, philosophy and social sciences, the preservation and inheritance of culture heritages, the status of religious development, the pattern of cultural industry and foreign culture exchanges in the new century.