Culture and Social Transformations

Cao Tianyu, Ph.D. 1987, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published monographs, edited books and articles including The Chinese Model of Modern Development (2005).Zhong Xueping, Ph.D. 1993, University of Iowa, is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University. She has published monographs, edited books and articles including Mainstream Culture Refocused (2010).Liao Kebin, Ph.D. 1989, Hangzhou University, is Professor of Classic Chinese Literature at Peking University. He has published monographs, edited books and articles including Mingdai Wenxue Fugu Yundong Yanjiu (2008).Ban Wang, Ph.D. 1993, UCLA, is William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His major publications include Words and Their Stories (2011).

• Introduction: The Social and Cultural Roots of the ReformsCAO Tianyu and ZHONG XuepingPart IModernism, Modernity, and IndividualismNAN FanSubaltern Literature: Theory and Practice (2004-2009)LI YunleiThe “Crime” of Lu Xun, Anti-Enlightenment, and Chinese Modernity: Criticism of Liu Xiaofeng’s “Christian Theology”LU Xinyu From Charting the Revolution to Charter 2008: From Maoist Discourse to De-politicizationDaniel F. VUKOVICHThe Transformation of Chinese University Culture: History, Present, and PathLIAO KebinPart IIAcademic Discourse, Official Ideology, and Institutional Metamorphoses: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Legal Discourses and RealityYU Xingzhong The Flight to Rights: 1990s China and BeyondRebecca E. KARLHuman Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in ChinaWANG BanDemocracy: Lyric Poem and Construction BlueprintHAN ShaogongPart IIIRereading “Commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Ming Fall”HAN YuhaiThe Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome ItCAI XiangPost-Socialism Revisited: Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” Its Past, Present, and FutureArif DIRLIKReinterpreting Capitalist Restoration in China: Toward a Historical Critique of “Actually Existing Market Socialism”Yiching WUThe Western Slump and Global Reorganization Robert WADEAn Argument for “Participatory Socialism”LIN Chun

"[T]his book makes a good contribution to the growing field of theoretically informed critical Chinese studies and provides rich food for thought. More important, it should be recognized as part of a continuous struggle being waged to counter neoliberal global hegemony." Xiaoning Lu, SOAS, University of London, MCLC Resource Center Publication, September 2015.