This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a

This book examines the troubled and changing relationship today's intellectuals in China have to the state. It focuses primarily on the post-Mao years when bitt

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assi

"Today’s intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of cri

To understand political change in contemporary China it is crucial to understand the position of intellectuals in that society and their often troubled relation