Member of the Central Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, member of Shandong Provincial Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, vice chairman of Jining Municipal Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, member of 13th C.P.P.C.C. and dean of China Confucius Research Institute Mr. Yang Chaoming has been dedicated to the study and carrying forward of Confucius, Confucianism and Chinese traditional culture, he wrote a great deal of books which he explored from different dimensions and levels and were well received.
1、The Chinese version of his new work Confucian Spirit and Chinese Dream was selected as “China Book International Initiative” 2017 by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of C.P.C.
As a thematic reader on popular theory, this book is divided into three parts: the first is on the great value of Chinese traditional culture and its significance in the cultural and spiritual development in our nation; the second is to interpret Chinese dream reasonably detailed, showing that Chinese dream is rooted in the soil of Chinese excellent traditional culture, pointing out that the Chinese dream influenced by Confucianism treads different paths with other nations but leads to the same destination; the third is to introduce how Confucianism nourishes Chinese dream and to illustrate the guiding role that Chinese dream under the influence of Confucianism plays and will continue to play in Chinese development.
This book could be called as the heavy weight class reader with positive energy of the times, the theme of which conforms to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of speeches, the hot issues of contemporary theory study and the latest direction and requirement in foreign publicity of our nation. Combining the Confucian spirit together with Chinese dream, elaborating on the profound connotations and origins of Chinese dream and socialist core value system, this book is a masterpiece in carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture. The publishing of this book manifested the soft power of our nation, strengthened the international influence of Chinese culture and has evident social and publishing values.
2、The Series of Interpretation of Chinese Traditional Eight Ethics which he served editor-in-chief for won “Annual Ten Top Books by Confucian Net” 2017
“Annual Ten Top Books by Confucian Net” is the important academic honor both at home and abroad in recent years and won much attention from all walks of lines. In 2014, Rectifying Fundamental Issues on Confucius edited by Yang Chaoming won this award.
This book, a popular theory reader mainly illustrating Chinese traditional eight ethics and divided into eight books in accordance with the eight ethics, was published by China Fangzheng Press in Feburary, 2017, and jointly edited by Yang Chaoming and his disciple Song Lilin.
In addition, each of these eight books include its own “progress graph”, which as the highlight of this book, will help the readers to grasp the origin and history of each of eight ethics.
3、Introducing the History of Chinese Confucianism with Graphs edited by him was published as one of the major projects in the “thirteenth five-year plan” of our nation.
The book was edited by Yang Chaoming and published by Shandong City Publishing Corporation•Jinan Publishing House.
It is divided into three volumes, providing systematic, thorough and comprehensive narration, portrait and illustration the over-two-thousand-year Confucianism history from Pre-Qin to modern times chronologically and vividly.
4、His new book the Interpretation of the Golden Mean was selected into Literature and Art Book List in January, 2018
Literature and Art Book List is released by 20 most influential pressing units over the country, recommending good books to readers under the principle of “coming across the best books on literature and art here”.
It was written by Yang Chaoming and Yang Chuanzhao, published in January, 2018. It includes five chapters, and is one of professor Yang Chaoming’s series of “interpreting Chinese classics” and the popular work to interpret the Golden Mean.
