New Left
Xiao Gongqin 蕭功秦 b. 1946
Xiao is a history professor at Shanghai Normal University. He is the leading scholar of Neo Authoritarianism (新权威主义). Journal Articles Xiao, Gongqin. “China’s changing of the guard: the rise of the technocrats.” Journal of Democracy 14, no.1 (Jan 2003) p. 60-65 Xiao, Gongqin. “Nationalism and the ideology in China’s transitional period.” Chinese Economic Studies 2 […]
Wang Shaoguang 王紹光 b. 1954
Wang is director of the Department of Government and Administrative Studies at CUHK. Influential member of New Left, works particularly on state capacity. Spent 1990-1991 in Russia, helping to establish democratic and market systems. Books Liew, Leong H.; Wang, Shaoguang. (eds.) Nationalism, democracy and national integration in China. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 2004. Journal Articles […]
Wang Hui, 汪暉 b. 1959
Wang is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University. Sent for compulsory “re-education” for his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Wang is a leading member of China’s “new left” movement and a past editor of Dushu, one of China’s most influential literary journals. Two-footer. Books Wang, Hui. China from […]
Jiang Shigong 強世功 b. 1967
Jiang is a professor at Peking University Law School, vice director of Shekebu at PKU. Areas of research cover Jurisprudence, constitution, Hong Kong study, and sociology of law. Books Jiang, Shigong. China’s Hong Kong: A Political and Cultural Perspective (Singapore: Springer, 2017) Journal Articles Jiang, Shigong. “Chinese-style constitutionalism: on Backer’s Chinese Party-state constitutionalism.” Trans. Jiang, […]
Qian Liqun, 錢理群 b. 1939
Qian was professor of Chinese literature at Peking University until his retirement in 2002. He is a leading proponent of May Fourth humanism in post-Mao literary and cultural criticism. The political discrimination and social exclusion that he suffered during the Cultural Revolution motivated his interest in Lu Xun’s form of criticism. Journal Articles Qian, Liqun. […]
Pan Wei 潘維 b. 1964
Pan is a professor at and director of the Center of Chinese and World Affairs on the School of International Relations of Peking University. He made his name by denouncing the worship of democracy. A conservative close to the New Left and proponent of the China model. Journal Articles Pan, Wei. “Reflections on the ‘China […]
Liu Xiaofeng 劉小楓 b. 1956
Liu is professor and director of Classical Culture Studies Centre at Renmin University. He has been considered the prototypical example of a cultural Christian, meaning a believer who may lack a specific church identification or affiliation. He is one of the main forerunners of the academic field of Sino-Christian Theology. Journal Articles Liu, Xiaofeng, Chen, […]
Hu An’gang 胡鞍钢 b.1953
Hu Angang is a Tsinghua University-affiliated economist who is regarded as a leading figure in what could be translated as ‘China National Exceptionalism Studies’. As an economist who spends much of his time concocting forecasts of China’s future, Hu is noted for his consistent optimism about the country’s socioeconomic transformation and historic reemergence as a […]
Gan Yang 甘陽 b. 1952
Gan was a professor of political philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and is now director of the Department of Liberal Arts of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. In the 1980s. He joined the New Left in the 1990s, and beginning in 2000, began to defend the Confucian revival, announcing his support for the creation […]
Ding Yun 丁耘 b. 1969
NEW LEFT Ding Yun is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, Fudan University and the Director of the Center for the Study of Intellectual History. His area of studies include German philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy; especially focuses on metaphysics, comparative philosophy, political philosophy and the history of ideas. Journal Articles Ding, Yun. “The […]