Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
中国社会科学院
AbbreviationCASS
FormationMay 7, 1977; 47 years ago (1977-05-07)
TypeThink tank
HeadquartersSouth Middle Ring Road, Wangjing Area, Chaoyang District
Location
Coordinates39°54′28″N 116°25′34″E / 39.9078°N 116.4262°E / 39.9078; 116.4262
Party Secretary and President
Gao Xiang
Parent organization
State Council of the People's Republic of China
Ministry of State Security (15th Bureau)
SubsidiariesChina Social Sciences Press
Websitecssn.cn Edit this at Wikidata
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese中国社会科学院
Traditional Chinese中國社會科學院
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngguó Shèhuì Kēxuéyuàn

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese state research institute and think tank. It is a ministry-level institution under the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

History

The predecessor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, established in 1955.[1]

The CASS was established in May 1977 based on splitting the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the aim of promoting the development of philosophy and social sciences, under the instruction of Deng Xiaoping.[2]: 86–87  The first president was Hu Qiaomu.[2]: 87 

In 1979, CASS Vice President Huan Xiang led the first Chinese delegation of social scientists to travel to the United States.[2]: 88 

In 2022, Gao Xiang was appointed Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and president of CASS.[3] In 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that a deputy director of CASS' Institute of Economics, Hengpeng Zhu, was detained and removed from his position after criticizing Xi Jinping's management of the national economy in a private WeChat group.[4][5]

Structure

The CASS is a ministry-level institution under the State Council.[6][7][8][9] As of 2012, CASS has over 3,200 resident scholars.[10][needs update] As of November 2020, the CASS has 6 university departments, 42 research institutes, 6 functional departments, 5 directly affiliated institutions, and 3 directly affiliated companies.[11] Of its functional departments, five are focused on research.[12]

CASS houses the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which later became the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.[13][non-primary source needed]

The Institute of Taiwan Studies at CASS is under the control of the Fifteenth Bureau of the Ministry of State Security.[14][15][16] The ITS has been headed by Zhu Weidong since 2023 after its previous head, Yang Mingjie, left to lead the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.[16]

The Dictionary Editing Office of the Institute of Linguistics edits Xiandai Hanyu Cidian.[17] The China Social Sciences Press was established in June 1978 under the auspices of the CASS,[18] and has published over 8,000 books since its inception.[19]

Activities

Every quarter, CASS hosts a high-level seminar to which it invites officials from other developing countries to discuss topics including governance in China, poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development.[20]

According to Chen Daoyin, a former professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, CASS "is not so much an academic institution but a body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership."[3] CASS employees periodically submit observations of colleagues' behavior to inspection teams, especially of colleagues who criticize the Chinese Communist Party in private.[21]

List of presidents

English name Chinese name Took office Left office Ref.
Hu Qiaomu 胡乔木 1977 1982 [citation needed]
Ma Hong 马洪 1982 1985 [citation needed]
Hu Qiaomu 胡乔木 1985 1988 [citation needed]
Hu Sheng 胡绳 1988 1998 [citation needed]
Li Tieying 李铁映 1998 2003 [citation needed]
Chen Kuiyuan 陈奎元 2003 2013 [citation needed]
Wang Weiguang 王伟光 April 2013 March 2018 [citation needed]
Xie Fuzhan 谢伏瞻 March 2018 May 2022 [citation needed]
Shi Taifeng 石泰峰 May 2022 December 2022 [citation needed]
Gao Xiang 高翔 December 2022 Incumbent [citation needed]

See also

References

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  17. ^ 中国社会科学院语言研究所词典编辑室, ed. (1 September 2016). 现代汉语词典(第七版) [A Dictionary of Current Chinese] (Seventh ed.). Beijing: The Commercial Press. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8.
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