The Construction of Value Philosophy in Contemporary China

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 People's 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 of"Taking the People as the Subject"in Contemporary China, The End of Value Dogmatism-Sandel's Theory of Justice in View of"The 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.