but one of the contributors have lived in the United States for most of the past decade). The
reason these authors converge in this special issue of Social Text is that in their different …

Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life
during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of …

Today, in media and academic discourses across the world, the image of China overwhelms
our appetite for contradictory descriptions and frustrates our established analytical and …

This book explores intellectual discourse in reform era China by analysing the so-called
“debate on the spirit of the Humanities”, which occurred in the years 1993-95, and which is …

The decade from 1978 to 1988 was a period of great social transformation in China. The
pragmatic economic policies and comparatively relaxed political approach resulted in a less …

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 …

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 …

Examining the Chinese situation is hampered by ideologies and methodologies nourished
in the heyday of the Cold War. Zhang provides a historical and theoretical overview of …

In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies-those
of radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy-were much debated in …

Chinese intellectuals are on the verge of a new stage of conceptualization for China's
socialist reconstruction. They seek a new economic rationale that, in contrast to either the …