Writers of PhDs have a unique, personal and in-depth
relationship
with their subject matter, which develops over a
number of years.
What happens when life intrudes so much into the
reading and
writing that it takes over the subject matter, so
that the original
struggle for objective scholarship threatens to
become subsumed in
emotion and self-discovery? The supervisor can do
worse than guide
their student towards the genre of life writing,
within which a
flourishing of sub-genres may be accommodating to such a
journey. For an Australian closed-records adoptee
caught up in the
reunion...

This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the essays...