ABSTRACT
While there have been winners as the CCP leadership has embraced globalisation, the departure from the planned economy has also eroded the security provided for workers in the state sector and imposed new demands on those who have traditionally been seen as the guardians of ideological orthodoxy, such as ‘intellectuals’ and educators. The discussion of the emerging CCP orthodoxy that this has generated has undoubtedly become more pluralistic due to the creation of new outlets for expression, such as a more commercialised publishing industry and the Internet. Yet it is Party orthodoxy that remains the main subject of such discussion and thus determines its permissible limits.
