Thoughts - China's "New Left" and its Impact: China's "New Left" and its Impact

Author: Gong Yang
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book traces the three major divisions experienced by China's contemporary enlightenment intellectual community since the reform and opening-up, focusing on the fundamental issues of "democracy," "ethnicity," and "people's livelihood." It introduces the ideological clashes between the two major factions, the "New Left" and "New Liberalism," in the 1990s. The content essentially summarizes the trends of differentiation and integration within China's intellectual circles during these debates. The book offers original answers to current international hot topics of concern to domestic readers and broadly covers evaluations of the Chinese Revolution, the Maoist era, and the historical perspectives of China and the West. Particularly intriguing is how the decline of the "Old Left" and the rise of the "New Left" seem to have taken history back to its original starting point at a new height, signifying the end of one era and the beginning of another. As a faithful archive of intellectual thought during this transitional period, this book is the only publication released by the publishing industry.