At the Height of His Power, China’s Xi Jinping Moves to Embrace Marxism
Why is President Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, presiding over a wealthy and resurgent China, embracing the philosophical ideas of Karl Marx?
No Regrets: Xi Says Marxism Still 'Totally Correct' for China
The decision of China's ruling Communist Party to stick with the political theories of Karl Marx remains "totally correct", President Xi Jinping said ahead of the 200th anniversary of the German philosopher's birth
China’s Huge Celebrations of Karl Marx Are Not Really about Marxism
What if Karl Marx lived long enough to see that one of his biggest fans in the world turned out to be the autocratic leader of a capitalist country where inequality and corruption prevail?
Books
08.01.17
Globalization against Democracy
Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-state democracy.
Books
05.18.16
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China’s political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation.
China’s College Counselors Told to Join the Party — the Communist Party
China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.
China Turns to Online Courses, and Mao, for Soft-Power Mission
“It was like watching propaganda.”
China Opens Communist Party Theme Park
Who needs Disneyland when you can have a theme park for youngsters to declare their loyalty to China's Communist Party?
Viewpoint
12.16.14
Why Marx Still Matters: The Ideological Drivers of Chinese Politics
In days of greater political brouhaha, “to go and see Marx” used to be a slang expression among Chinese Communists, to refer to death. More recently, a considerable number of commentators have pronounced the expiry of Marxism itself. China’s...
Culture
09.23.14
Contact Lenses
Will we all become “Chinese?” International New York Times correspondent Didi Kirsten Tatlow ironically asked recently. The question plays...
China’s Press Corps Ordered to Study Marxism
The nation’s 307,000 reporters, producers and editors will soon have to sit through at least two days of Marxism classes, the Communist Party’s Propaganda Department has announced along with the press association and the state press...
China’s Public Expression Philosophy: A Case Of Too Little Theory?
For the foreseeable future, accepting pluralism, in all its colours and guises, is simply inconceivable in the epistemology of the Communist Party, and so are liberal conceptions of free expression and democracy.
The NYRB China Archive
10.11.90
The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page
from New York Review of Books1.
In any debate, you really know that you have won when you find your opponents beginning to appropriate your ideas, in the sincere belief that they themselves just invented them. This situation can afford a subtle satisfaction; I think...