Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, "New AsianMarxism"s collects essays by a diverse group of scholars--historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists--who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.

While some of these essays take up key thinkers in Marxist history or draw attention to outstanding problematics, others focus on national literature and discourse in North and South Korea, the "Mao Zedong Fever" of the 1990s,...

Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, "New AsianMarxism"s collects essays by a diverse group of scholars--historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists--who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.

While some of these essays take up key thinkers in Marxist history or draw attention to outstanding problematics, others focus on national literature and discourse in North and South Korea, the "Mao Zedong Fever" of the 1990s,...