ABSTRACT

First published in 1987. This book is part of an ongoing intellectual project—to understand how a changing Chinese Marxism both reflects and shapes the lives of the intelligentsia in China.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Collaboration and Conflict in the Search for a New Order

part I|30 pages

The Party Center

chapter |30 pages

Peng Zhen

Evolving Views on Party Organization and Law

part II|73 pages

Party Intellectuals

chapter |41 pages

Yang Xianzhen

Upholding Orthodox Leninist Theory

chapter |32 pages

Deng Tuo

A Chinese Leninist Approach to Journalism

part III|61 pages

Establishment Scholars

chapter |31 pages

Sun Yefang

Toward a Reconstruction of Socialist Economics

chapter |30 pages

Wu Han

The "Upright Official" as a Model in the Humanities

part IV|72 pages

On the Fringe of the Establishment

chapter |27 pages

Bai Hua

The Political Authority of a Writer

chapter |35 pages

The Audience

Growing Alienation among Chinese Youths

chapter |10 pages

Afterword