Contemporary Chinese Thought

The spectrum ranges from essays critical of the regime to texts supportive of the state and the Party, all published in the period between the global financial crisis and the present day. Each selected text offers a significant contribution to understand key problems in Chinese politics and society. For meaningful future debates about developments in the People’s Republic of China, we need to know what is being discussed in China itself, what the central arguments are in key discourses, and where these arguments fit into the broader panorama of Chinese history and politics.