East Asia: Facts and Analytics 2025/4
DOI: 10.24412/2686-7702-2025-4-110-126
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Author
| Gerasimova Tat’yana G. |
| Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID: 0009-0008-9693-7354 |
| E-mail: gerta48@mail.ru |
Abstract
This review article is dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the yearbook “The People’s Republic of China: Politics, Economics, Culture”. It briefly presents the publication’s background and highlights the features of the first issues from 1969 to 1972. The publication of yearbooks on China, which began as an experiment, gave a positive impetus to the development of a serial scientific information material that implemented the idea of a comprehensive approach to the study of China. After the removal of the restrictive classification in 1975, it became open to a wide audience. It is noted that since 2000, an increasing number of articles have been distinguished by a deep analytical approach to the processes unfolding in China. Over more than 50 years of its existence, the yearbook has acquired authority in academic and public circles, becoming an informal calling card of the IFES (later ICCA RAS). The review attempts to assess the significance of the first books and the series as a whole, to draw attention to research on the topic of the “chronicle” of the PRC, and to arouse interest of young authors in studying the heritage of Russian Sinology.
Keywords
PRC, “The People’s Republic of China” series, IFES of the USSR Academy of Sciences, ICCA RAS, M.I. Sladkovskiy, information and analytical publication, yearbook, Soviet-Chinese relations, Sinology
Support
The research was carried out within the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project No. FMSF-2025-0015 “China: history and modernity. Russian-Chinese relations in the 17th–21st centuries and prospects for their development”).
Acknowledgments
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For citation
Gerasimova T.G. (2025). Yezhegodnik “KNR: politika, ekonomika, kul’tura” – 55 let analitiki i ponimaniya Kitaya [“The PRC: Politics, Economics, Culture” Yearbook – 55 years of analysis and understanding of China]. Vostochnaya Aziya: fakty i analitika [East Asia: Facts and Analytics], 7 (4): 110–126. (In Russian). DOI 10.24412/2686-7702-2025-4-110-126
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Dates
| Received Date: | 2025.08.14 |
| Accepted Date: | 2025.10.01 |
| Publication Date: | 2025.12.23 |