Since 1978, He Xin has entered a major turning point in his life. This year he returned to Beijing from Heilongjiang. After several years of hard work, it quickly opened up the situation and eventually became one of the most advanced academic research centers in China, China Academy of Social Sciences. Here, He Xin began his colorful and legendary academic life with a series of challenging theoretical studies. But I'm afraid Mr. He Xin himself didn't expect that he rebelled against the orthodoxy and mainstream of China academic circles for forty years, and until today, this unfettered way of doing research is still in a continuing trend. When he entered the Academy of Social Sciences, He Xin had access to a lot of new information, especially foreign information, and he could directly read some central secret documents and confidential files. The scientific research institution bureau where he works is the academic center of China Academy of Social Sciences. The bureau has a rich and high-quality library (including many Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers and periodicals), although the total amount is not very large. There are more than one hundred newspapers and periodicals at home and abroad alone. He Xin made full use of these materials and indulged in reading and writing notes almost every day. Here, he was exposed to all kinds of modern western thoughts, dabbled in western academic works such as existentialism, phenomenology, linguistic analysis, structuralism, semiotics and hermeneutics, and paid special attention to western ethnology and cultural anthropology theories. In China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were still many theoretical forbidden zones in the field of political ideology. Just after the Cultural Revolution, such a big nation even discussed the issue that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth", which shows how rigid the ideology was at that time. History has entered an era in urgent need of change, and a great wave of ideological emancipation has emerged in China. He Xin at this time can be described as an event. During the period of 1978- 1983, he published a series of articles and academic papers in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Xinhua Digest, Academic Monthly, Learning and Exploration, Dialectics of Nature Newsletter, Foreign Philosophy and Reading.

During this period, his main articles involved philosophy, history, logic, aesthetics, the history of academic thought, literary theory and other disciplines, and the number of articles reached more than 30.

These wide-ranging works, including many heavyweight works, were written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which surprised people with the author's energy. Congratulatory letters followed the trend of the ideological emancipation movement and poured out a series of rebellious and heretical thoughts formed during the Cultural Revolution, which was out of control. In these articles with a wide range of topics and rich contents, he boldly criticized the rigid and conservative dogmatism and outdated ideas in philosophy, history, literature, aesthetics, logic and art theory, called for emancipating the mind and innovating ideas, which formed a powerful challenge and impact on the mainstream ideological research in the fields involved, shouted out the pioneers of the times, and aroused strong repercussions and resonance in the ideological circle. At the same time, He Xin, as a new star with great energy, has also risen rapidly in contemporary academic circles.

Some of his cutting-edge ideas were avant-garde and represented the voices of many intellectuals, including newspaper editors, at that time, so they often shook the ideological circle after publication. These articles made him gain a high reputation in the academic and intellectual circles, and at the same time, they were the basis for him to be absorbed into China Academy of Social Sciences.

He Xin worked in the Academy of Social Sciences for ten years, including five years in the College of Arts. This decade is very important in He Xin's academic career. He Xin's whole academic system can be said to be laid and established during this period. In this decade alone, He Xin has published 89 books and written nearly 5 million words. This is his most energetic and intelligent period.

This decade is limited to 1985, which can be divided into early stage and late stage. Not only has he worked here longer than the Science Research Bureau, the Institute of Modern History and the Graduate School since he was transferred from the Institute of Literature, but 1985 is also an important watershed in his academic research and social, political and ideological attitude.