Eddy U is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism2. The Birth of a Classification3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive5. Classification and Organization in a School System6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to PresentCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"[A]n illuminating approach, which shifts the study of intellectuals from the study of a social group to the construction of the concept itself . . ."

Eddy U is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism2. The Birth of a Classification3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive5. Classification and Organization in a School System6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to PresentCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"[A]n illuminating approach, which shifts the study of intellectuals from the study of a social group to the construction of the concept itself . . ."

Eddy U is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism2. The Birth of a Classification3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive5. Classification and Organization in a School System6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to PresentCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"[A]n illuminating approach, which shifts the study of intellectuals from the study of a social group to the construction of the concept itself . . ."