One of the West's leading authorities on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents an account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman describes a group of highly-placed intellectuals who, with the patronage of Deng Xiaoping's designated successors Hu Yaobang and then Zhao Ziyang, attempted to reshape both China's Marxist-Leninist ideology and its political system.
One of the West's leading authorities on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents an account of the efforts at political reform in the...
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially oriented than ever before. The future impact of this activity on Chinese civil society is discussed in the last chapter.
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy chang...
In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's.
By singling out individual writers as egregious examples, party leaders, through a series of thought-control campaigns, have tried to mold intellectuals along orthodox doctrinal lines. But these same leaders, holding to the paradoxical conviction that...
In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. Th...
