Xi Embraces Mao as He Tightens Grip on Country
The debate concerning Xi Jinping’s capability and willingness to bring about reform in...
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Bo Trial a Pivotal Moment for Economic Reform
As the erasure of Bo Xilai’s legacy continues and his trial for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power looms, Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard report that division over Bo’s fate may be holding back economic and...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
Chinese Maoists in North Korea: Paradise Lost
Despite an apparently strong showing at this autumn’s anti-Japanese protests, times are hard for China’s New Left. Bo Xilai awaits trial, Mao’s legacy faces erosion and pollution, leftist websites are under...
New Leftist Targeted in Shoe-Throwing Protest
A student at Hainan University hurled a shoe at prominent neo-Maoist Sima Nan after a lecture on Sunday, earning cheers from others in the audience. Global Voices’ Oiwan Lam translated the thrower’s introductory...
China’s ‘New Left’ Grows Louder
The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Spegele examines China’s ‘New Left’, which combines opposition to corruption and economic inequality with support for Maoist values and its former “ray of...
Bo Xilai Expelled from Party, Will Face Criminal Charges (Updated)
Together with the long-awaited announcement of a start date for the 18th Party Congress, Xinhua revealed on Friday that Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Party and will now face criminal prosecution: Investigations found that...
How the West Shaped China’s Ideological Battles
As China’s leadership transition approaches, the public battle of political ideals is becoming more acute. Despite their sharply divided positions, those on the left and the right share one thing: most of the vocal theorists...
Why China’s Left Is Up in Arms
China Media Project takes a close look at the ideological battle currently playing out between left and right in China: The “deep reds,” with their wistful talk of the glories of Mao Zedong, the “Four Basic Principles” and...
Wang Hui: The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity
China Beat has posted an excerpt of the English edition of prominent public intellectual Wang Hui’s book, The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity: Discussions of the state are directly related to...
For China’s New Left, Old Values
The Washington Post takes a look at the critics of China’s reform policies: Although Chairman Mao continues to be revered here as the visionary who founded the country and transformed it into a world power, the Communist...
No Forbidden Zone in Reading? Dushu and the Chinese Intelligentsia
In New Left Review, Zhang Yongle looks at Essentials of Dushu, a survey of the intellectual journal’s last ten years, which he calls, “a window through which the world can see China’s social upheavals during this...
China’s New Intelligentsia
In Prospect Magazine, Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, writes a lengthy article about China’s “ideas and who produces them”: We are used to China’s growing...
Contemporary Chinese Society’s Ideological Splits – Xu Youyu (徐友渔)
Translated by Michael Huang, from China Elections and Governance: China is currently experiencing a period of rapid social transformation. On the one hand, its social economy has scored tremendous achievements; on the other,...
China’s New Left calls for a social alternative – Pankaj Mishra
In the International Herald Tribune, Pankaj Mishra writes: One day earlier this year I met Wang Hui at the Thinker’s Cafe near Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he teaches. A small, compact man with streaks of gray in...
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