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 …

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 …

Of all the persisting civilizations in the world, Chinese civilization has endured the
vicissitudes of history the longest without abrupt collapse. In the formation and development …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The emergence of Chinese liberalism carries with it a specific China-centric character that
reflects both a Chinese and a foreign focus on the nation's complicated domestic situation …

This article will examine the strategies by which a number of intellectuals in China have
staked out a liberal position in their work over the last decade, doing so in the face of …