China S PRESENT LEADERS have turned their backs upon revolution-ary solutions to the
problems of socialism. Are they also prepared to abandon the quest for socialism? As …

Yan Sun's examination of the debate within China over socialist thought from 1976 to 1992
is quite simply the most important book to be published on Chinese politics and the political …

Over the last decade, the Communist regime in China has undertaken a restructuring of
Chinese socialism. Most dramatic of the changes initiated by the regime is the redefinition of …

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 examines the future of socialism in China. China is not socialist today, nor are its
reforms likely to bring about socialism. Indeed, China has been “reforming” for over two …

28 INTRODUCTION egalitarian and democratic society, and one that renders socialism into
an instrument of parochial pragmatic goals of national development. These alternative …

In the Soviet bloc socialism was gradually emptied and attenuated, drained by growing
dissidence and economic and political stagnation. China experienced an opposite process …

Our taks--no small one at that--is to comprehend the relation between state and society in
socialism, not just as it is predicted in Marxist theory but as it has actually developed. It has …

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 …