The building of the Republic of China (on January 1, 1912) brought about a modern
parliamentary democracy that lasted for only two years (1912–1913). During that period …

This paper discusses dissent in the People's Republic of China, especially in the post-Mao
era. It begins historically with a discussion of the role of public intellectuals, as personified by …

IntroductionThe history of China since the mid-nineteenth century has been closely
intertwined with global economic, political, and intellectual developments. Despite its best …

like Stalin's, has revealed that the ruler was deeply integrated with the political system which
he dominated, and with the ideology and the policy by which the political system was …

The death of Mao Zedong in 1976 was, as everybody felt at once, the end of an epoch in the
evolution of Communist China-and that in more senses than one. It was the death of the …

In the 1980s, China experienced what appeared to be a substantial reform of the existing
economic and political system. Economic reforms resulted in significant departures from …

There is no national Communism, say Chinese Communist leaders. Nevertheless, both
implicitly and explicitly, these leaders support a concept of" national roads to Communism," …

Western perceptions of communism in East Asia have changed dramatically during the last
decade. Where once it was seen as a threat now the emphasis is on communism in reform …

It is next to impossible to write today, now, in this fraught historical moment about the May
Fourth Movement and its centenary with anything other than sheer astonishment—still …

China's post-Mao transition has been marked by the steady transformation of the Chinese
Communist Party from a revolutionary elite oriented toward utopian goals to a technocratic …