和谐是中国传统哲学辩证法和马克思主义哲学辩证法的落脚点，因此它对于中华文化和中国特色社会主义有着天然的亲近感。党中央从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发，明确提出构建社会主义和谐社会的战略任务。

在《和谐(英文版)》中，作者章伟文从民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处这六大方面详细展望了和谐社会的美好愿景。

Chapter 1 Understanding of "Harmony ( 'He Xie' in Chinese)" and "Harmonious Society"

 Section One : Definition of "harmony"

 Section Two : Understanding of "harmonious society"

 Section Three : Understanding of harmonious socialist society

Chapter 2 Enlightenment of Chinese Traditional National Culture to

 Building of a Harmonious Socialist Society

 Section One : Relevance between national culture and building of a harmonious socialist gociety

 Section Two : Advocate excellent national culture of China, facilitate building of a harmonious socialist society

Chapter 3 Harmony is a Value Based on Chinese Cultural Tradition

 Section One : Harmony as the value goal of social development

 Section Two : Harmony is a value foundation of the social system

 Section Three : Harmony is an important norm of social value

Chapter 4 Harmony is the Value that Embodies Socialist Characteris- tics

 Section One : Only socialism can firmly guarantee the broadest sense of social harmony

 Section Two : Socialism upholds fairness and justice and mani-fests real social harmony

Chapter 5 Harmony is a Kind of Universal Values

 Section One : Harmony should be the theoretical basis of univer-sal cultural values

 Section Two : It is of practical significance to take harmony as a kind of universal cultural values