China today confronts revolutionary socialists with some intriguing and controversial
questions. How far have capitalist production and social relations been restored? Does this …

This article argues that the historic tasks of removing foreign domination and landlord-
capitalist rule in the colonies are one task and have to be carried out by the proletariat, in …

BEIJING, March 11—For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People's Congress,
the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is …

" No-one can give a credible answer to the question: What is China?” insisted an editorial in
Svenska Dagbladet on the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. The New York …

Since the late 1970s the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of a group that we
will describe as the “pragmatists,” has embarked on a course of economic reform designed …

The 1989 events* were a process of ideological exorcism, not only for civil society, but also
for the ruling party, for whom it was arguably more significant than for the common people …

China's post-Mao economic reform is an intensely studied subject among scholars of
Chinese politics. With China turning increasingly capitalist, the issue that consumes …

It is a widely-held belief that the growth of material wealth yields increasing social
tranquillity, but studies of modernization have long revealed that certain stages of economic …

For much of the early history of the People's Republic of China, the economics and politics of
that nation moved through successive 'revolutionary'changes in institutional structures and …

The massacre at Tiananmen Square definitively tarnished China's image as a country in the
forefront of the ex-Socialist bloc. After a short spell of indignation, most of the commentators …