University publishers from home and abroad gathered in Beijing on August 26 to discuss the past, present and future of academic publishing in a globalized, digitalized world.
The meeting themed "University Publishing in the Context of Globalization——Past and Future", saw university publishing directors, publishing professionals and authors share their experiences on promoting academic dialogue and social progress, analyzing the opportunities and challenges university presses are facing, and also exploring development and cooperation prospects.
Speaking at the event, Wu Shulin, the executive vice-president of the Publishers Association of China, said that while China had made a lot of progress in academic publishing over the past four decades, there was still a clear gap between its academic publishing and that of the world's publishing powers.
So, he felt it was worth trying to turn traditional Chinese humanistic expressions into social science analysis and arguments, and to take advantage of Western theories by using them, enriching them and challenging them instead of simply using Chinese practices and experiences to verify them.
Source: China Daily
