“The PRC: Politics, Economics, Culture” Yearbook – 55 years of analysis and understanding of China

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.