Everyone knows that things are changing in China, and that they have been changing for
some time: ever since Mao went to join Marx, to use his own expression, in September 1976 …

This article assesses the Chinese intellectual scene through sketching four groups of
Chinese intellectuals: state strategists, the (politically) scandalous, professionals, and the …

INTELLECTUALS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN AMONG the foremost advocates of political
reform in repressive autocratic states. During the early decades of the twentieth century …

With the end of the Deng Xiaoping era, China is struggling to define its future. Ongoing
socioeconomic changes, impelled by Deng's reform since 1979, pose an unprecedented …

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 …

Although dissident intellectuals and students continued to be persecuted in the post-Mao
Zedong regimes of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, China's intellectuals were no longer …

China's New Left analyzes the complex political views of leftists in the Chinese political
spectrum. In the past years, China's political majority has steadily leaned toward the right …

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 …

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 …