A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last
fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the
merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a
program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better
advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged
Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the
death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more
basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system
due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun
gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an
unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and
comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist
theory and practice.
Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese
socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking,
Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own
terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the
interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the
development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with
problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the
theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening
comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with
those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of
reform and revolution in their respective countries.
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