NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Socialist Legacy of China Is No Longer Socialist
In your book in chapter seven you write quote as an ideological promise the socialist legacy is gone as a structural matter certain rest messages remain to be reworked by the capitalist transformation of the Chinese economy. What does this mean in the context of what we know post 1989? How do you envision both revolution and Chinese-ness under more recent years under Xi Jinping's rule, he asks. He says China now has become one of the major cheerleaders for proponents of architects of global capitalist system.
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