, by FRIEDMAN Eli
China’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists” cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
“It’s a golden period to be a leftist in China.” At least that was the assessment of Minzu University of China professor and well-known Maoist Zhang Hongliang in a recent New York (...)
, by CARTER Lance
In a country where the Communist Party has dominated “left-wing” politics for over sixty years, dissent has often been deemed a “right-wing” or “counterrevolutionary” affair. Subsequently, many dissidents and parts of the general population have embraced the term “right-wing” as implying something (...)
, by AU Loong-Yu
Review of Wang Hui, The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, London: Verso, 2010, 272 pp., $26.95.
The publisher of Wang Hui’s book described it as follows: “arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, (...)
, by LI Minqi
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] economics.utah.edu) has taught economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, since 2006. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. His book, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, was published by Pluto Press and Monthly (...)
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