What new insights into our subject matter do the recent stirring and tragic events disclose? In
our introduction we defend the importance of studying Chinese Marxist analysis on its own …

The period between the Ninth and Tenth Congresses of the CCP was one of immense and
far-reaching changes within China. This book analyses these processes of change and …

Since the death of Mao Zedong, it has gone out of fashion to take Chinese Communist
political thought seriously. At one time, Western scholars devoted themselves to detailed …

In April 1921, the famed writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892–1927) traveled to Shanghai.
Although most of the places he visited have completely changed in the intervening ninety …

In W estem democratic countries, people act on the basis of a well-established law which
sanctions the interests of private economic subjects, because the nation-wide validity of their …

Ideas are powerful forces in the shaping of the course of human events. When, in the early
1830s, Heinrich Heine, out of his concern for the future of Europe, wrote his Concerning the …

Since Mao's death in 1976, Marxism as the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party has
changed in an unprecedented way. The reform in China is in fact repudiating Marxism, not …

According to late reports, it seems likely that the State Department will finally allow American
newsmen to travel to China so that the American public may at last receive “first hand” …

Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and
impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented …