Country and Region Studies (CRS) are in the ascendant. How to understand and construct CRS with Chinese characteristics is a hot topic in Chinese academic circles. Central and Eastern European studies have a long history. How to standardize and promote Central and Eastern European studies within the framework of CRS is a new issue encountered by the Chinese academic circles. CRS are not only based on humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, but also differ from the above-mentioned traditional disciplines, with multiple attributes as its main characteristics. The multiple attributes of CRS are mainly reflected as follows: “others,” “self” and a community with a shared future for mankind in the perspective and standpoint of research; countries, sub-regions and regions in the research objects; particularity, universality and comprehensiveness in research content; and its multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary nature. As a part of CRS, Central and Eastern European studies both reflect the way forward due to the requirements of multiple attributes as follows: to understand Central and Eastern Europe from the perspective of the region itself; to analyze it from our stance and to research it from the standpoint of a community with a shared future for mankind; to pay attention to the definition of the sub-regions and regions and to advance the studies of countries, sub-regions and regions at the same time; to strengthen Central and Eastern Europe as well as to the general pattern and theoretical innovation; and to promote the formation of cross-disciplines on the basis of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

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