In the ideological spectrum of China today, liberalism is undoubtedly at the farthermost end,
diametrically opposite to the direction the party-state is likely to follow. A summary of liberal …

Liberalism has had a long history in China. Western culture and ideas of liberty, equality,
and fraternity began influencing China about 200 years ago and continue to have a major …

The international press dubbed early 1998 as the “Beijing spring,” noting that Chinese
intellectuals,“emboldened by signs of tolerance,” argued for political reform “more loudly …

The trajectory of intellectual thought in China during the 1990s begins with the critique of so-
called radicalism at the end of the 1980s and advances steadily into conservatism—even …

This article scrutinizes the view in recent mainland Chinese scholarship that the intellectuals
of modern China misunderstood liberalism, and even distorted it, because they failed to …

Taking as its basis the polemical texts of the adherents of liberalism and neo-leftism in China
at the end of the last century, this article presents the main questions that the writers from …

Liberalism in China can be traced to Yan Fu's translations of works of Victorian liberalism in
the late nineteenth century. This was years before either fascism or communism were …

After having been sidelined and overwhelmed several times, the gathering momentum of
liberalism and social democracy in China today may constitute the most profound change in …

The debates between liberalism and the New Left, which broke out in the middle of the
1990s, are a phenomenon rarely seen among mainland Chinese intellectuals since 1949 …

After having been sidelined and overwhelmed several times, the gathering momentum of
liberalism and social democracy in China today may constitute the most profound change in …