As the world is drawn together with increasing force, our
long-standing isolation from--and baffling ignorance of--China is
ever more perilous. This book offers a powerful analysis of China
and the transformations it has undertaken since 1989.
Wang Hui is unique in China's intellectual world for his ability
to synthesize an insider's knowledge of economics, politics,
civilization, and Western critical theory. A participant in the
Tiananmen Square movement, he is also the editor of the most
important intellectual journal in contemporary China. He has a
grasp and vision that go beyond contemporary debates to allow him
to connect the events of 1989 with a long view of Chinese history.
Wang Hui argues that the features of contemporary China are
elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations
of economic growth and development have trumped every other
concern, particularly those of democracy and social justice. At its
heart this book represents an impassioned plea for economic and
social justice and an indictment of the corruption caused by the
explosion of "market extremism."
As Wang Hui observes, terms like "free" and "unregulated" are
largely ideological constructs masking the intervention of highly
manipulative, coercive governmental actions on behalf of economic
policies that favor a particular scheme of capitalist
acquisition--something that must be distinguished from truly free
markets. He sees new openings toward social, political, and
economic democracy in China as the only agencies by which the
unstable conditions thus engendered can be remedied.
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