188 THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE AFFAIRS momentary polemical needs of
the main contending Chinese political currents-orthodox, reformers and radicals-than an …

This chapter attempts to study the background, purpose, and possible impact of the theory.
The idea of an" initial stage of socialism" was formed in the process of combating" leftist …

The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was extremely painful to
China. Chinese newspapers and journals published numerous articles demonstrating the …

EDITORS'NOTE: October 1, 1969, marked the 20th anniversary of Communist rule in China.
In contrast to the first decade of the Maoist regime, which saw the successful consolidation of …

What new insights into our subject matter do the recent stirring and tragic events disclose? In
our introduction we defend the importance of studying Chinese Marxist analysis on its own …

II In the context of political changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the durability of
socialism in China is in some ways surprising. By the late 1980s it might have appeared that …

4 INTRODUCTION tated as much by immediate political, economic, and cultural interests as
by actual developments in Chinese sOciety. For this is not the first time that there has been a …

AFTER a decade in power, the Chinese Communists have had enough time to change the
past as well as the present. Voluminous documentary collections, monographs, and general …

The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the differences in
reading Marxist philosophy from the perspective of the Inseparability of One and Many …