Shen Ke, professor of the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Fudan University, was elected as Chinese Young Affiliate of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in Developing Countries in 2022, the only one from China this year. A total of 16 scholars from the mainland of China have been elected as young affiliates since 2007. Shen Ke is the second one in the field of social sciences and economics. As a young demographer, Shen Ke has been devoted to the issue of aging populations for more than a decade. His comparative studies reveal the similarities and differences in the economic consequences of aging faced by different countries at different stages of demographic transition, identify the inter-generational distribution patterns of dependency burdens and economic resource...
2023-01-05“The Power of Reading· Always Be Together” thematic activity, jointly organized by Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations, Shanghai Century Publishing Group and Wenhui Newspaper, invited experts, scholars and readers to share their thoughts and understandings developed in their reading amidst fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, so as to practically inspire love for reading in all people, manifest the power of reading, and bring confidence and hope to the period overshadowed by the pandemic. Xie Chao Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations, President of Shanghai Scientific Socialism Society, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance Karl Marx observed that “the extent to wh...
2022-04-22“The Power of Reading· Always Be Together” thematic activity, jointly organized by Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations, Shanghai Century Publishing Group and Wenhui Newspaper, invited experts, scholars and readers to share their thoughts and understandings developed in their reading amidst fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, so as to practically inspire love for reading in all people, manifest the power of reading, and bring confidence and hope to the period overshadowed by the pandemic. Quan Heng Vice Chairman of Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations, and Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences While occupied by pandemic prevention and control, I’ve been thinking over how to overcome the chall...
2022-04-07Recently Wu Yuren, Professor of Physics at Tongji University, has become known as “Granny Physics” since her interesting short videos popularizing physics have gone viral on the internet. Prof. Wu said, “As a country would not grow without the overall improvement of its people, it is desirable to push for more and deeper learning and instructive popular science.” In the past, Children’s Palaces and Teenagers’ Science and Technology Stations used to be the major theatres for science popularization among youth, while numerous bestsellers, newspapers and magazines served as the main vehicles of popular science. Both those facilities and publications were able to arouse children’s intellectual curiosity about the world, about the unknown. Now we have G...
2022-03-31The 7th Session of Lecture on Jiangnan Culture (Season 2), “The Dialects in Jiangnan” jointly organized by the Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences and the Shanghai Museum, was held at the Shanghai Museum. Tao Huan, Director of Chinese Language Society and Professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Fudan University; and Qian Cheng, Shanghai Municipal People's Congressman, Director of Chinese Ballad Singers Association and Deputy Director-General of Shanghai Farce Troupe, delivered speeches of Wu Dialect and Jiangnan Culture and Vivid Dialects respectively . Tao Huan discussed the origins and transformation of the Shanghai dialect in connection with 1) the location of the ancient Wu and Yue states, 2) the language and folk songs prevailing in the Wu s...
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