Shanghai Social Science Hall’s “shared area for academic groups” officially opens to the public

Starting from March 5th onwards, Shanghai Social Science Hall’s “shared area for academic groups” was officially opened to the public. This exhibition area contains display cabinets showing the historical evolution and representative publications of the 170-plus academic groups affiliated with the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations. Enclosed in the “area” is also a “reader zone”, a facility for all readers, all the members of the associations included, of course. The area is definitely unprecedented. For the first time ever, it has gathered, in one and same physical location, all the academic societies ranging over a whole variety of research fields, effectively catering to the new trend of inter-society, interdisciplinary and cross-field integration of academic research. It provides “spatial support” and “physical support” for the current effort to build a comprehensive and multi-domain philosophy and social science system.