Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the
country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes …

This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the
English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of …

The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the
radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and …

This dissertation takes a relational approach to the intellectual debates in contemporary
China by analyzing the formation of political ideas and crystallization of intellectual …

Both inside and outside of China, debates rage about the capacity of the state to effectively
govern the economy. In the West, those who claim that the Chinese state is rapidly …

Bender writes as an intellectual and urban historian of American life, but his articulation of
the variables we need to investigate in order to understand the pubic role of intellectuals can …

This thesis explores the resurgence of Chinese leftism online, its historical rationale,
characteristics, scopes of influence, space for survival, contributions and limitations, and …

Emerging at first as a narrow intellectual critique in the mid-1990s, the New Left soon grew
wings as it merged with supporters of populism, statism, and nationalism. The “Chinese New …

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Auseinandersetzung chinesischsprachiger
Wissenschaftler mit dem Werk Carl Schmitts zwischen 1989 und 2018. Von der …

In 1992 Zhang Yimou, doubtless China's best-known film director both domestically and
abroad, released The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiuju da guansi), a dramatic feature about a peasant …