Marxist classics studies and their application in the contemporary world. This field generates the ensuing research directions: classical works of Marxism and foundational theories of Marxism; Ideological theories of Marxism; the 21^stcentury frontier issues concerning Marxism.

The salient research fruits yielded by the school’s faculty are featured by their organic combination of Marxist political and economic theories with China’s economic and developmental practices and coherent incorporation of studies on contemporary currents of Marxist philosophical thought with overseas Marxism studies.