Introduction

After the completion of the special issues, if conditions permit, some contributors, mainly the authors already involved, would compile and write monographs on the study of contemporary Chinese Marxism and publish them in English at well-known publishing houses outside China. The authors contacted some scholars whom the authors thought might contribute to the two groups of papers. After the completion of the two groups of short pieces, the authors immediately threw themselves into writing longer papers and completed manuscripts on time in accordance with the journal's schedule. It outlines those debates about dialectical logic in Chinese academic circles involve not only the problems of logic itself, but more importantly the understanding of Marxist philosophy. Foreign Marxism has been an important part of the study of contemporary Chinese Marxism in recent decades in China, this special issue has therefore three papers relating to the study of structuralist Marxism in France, radical postmodernism in France, and new materialism in Britain.