Wen Hui Original Series -- Intellectuals and the Renminbi

Author: Chen Mingyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The economic life of intellectuals has always been a focal point of social attention. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the treatment of intellectuals in China has significantly improved. Reflecting on the entire 20th century, the living conditions of China's intellectual class experienced several twists and turns, gradually declining into poverty, leading to the bizarre phenomenon of "brain-body inversion." This is an undeniable and unavoidable historical truth. So, how did the process of poverty among China's intellectual class unfold in the past? And how can we strive for reasonable and just ways to achieve prosperity in the future? We must distinguish between two definitions of "intellectuals." One is the image of an intellectual as perceived by some people, such as "the conscience of society" or "the voice of the people." The other is "intellectuals as perceived by the general public." The subject of this book is the latter group—the so-called intellectual class in society.