In the discussion below, I consider the interpretive possibilities of a conceptualization of
Chinese socialism that is primarily deconstructive in intention, although it may also provide …

A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only
intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social …

First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of
Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data …

Is China still building socialism or has it already built capitalism? Or maybe both? Or maybe
none of those two systems? Or maybe with the market reforms that deviate from the …

Comrades, On behalf of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),
I will now deliver a report to the 20th National Congress. The 20th National Congress of the …

Comrades, On behalf of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, I will
now deliver a report to the 19th National Congress. The 19th National Congress of the …

The history of subaltern groups is necessarily fragmented and episodic. There undoubtedly
does exist a tendency to (at least provisional stages of) unification in the historical activity of …

It has been 40 years since Deng Xiaoping broke dramatically with Maoist ideology and the
Maoist variant of socialism. Since then, China has been transformed. Forty years ago, in …

First published in 1979. Sociology flourished in China during the 1930s and 1940s but with
the establishment of the People's Republic of China, controversies arose over the place of …

These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue
vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they …