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This article analyses changes in China's system of public communication in the last three decades. Social communication theory is used to assess the links between communication and society which are part of the resent transition from a paradigm based on "real socialism" to the newly adopted communicative model [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of papers related to sociology published in this issue. They include "El pasado al servicio del presente: interpretaciones nacionalistas del surgimiento de la civilización china," by Walburga Wiesheu, "China: visión y práctica de sus ilamadas "relaciones estratégicas," and "Espacios del conocimiento, muros del silencio: fundamentos arquitectónicos de Ia madrasa en el islam oriental. Siglos xiv-xvi," by Yunersy Legorburo Ibarra.