On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System

Anita Chan, a sociologist, is Research Associate at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Kansas. She is the author of Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation (1985) and coauthor of Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao's China (1984). Stanley Rosen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou (1982) and The Role of Sent-down Youth in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1981), the co-editor of Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China (forthcoming), and the editor of the journal Chinese Education. Jonathan Unger is Associate Professor of East Asian Cultures and Sociology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980 (1982) and co-author of Chen Village (1984).

• Introduction, Part I. The Li Yizhe Manifesto, Part II. The Arrest and Political Vindication of Li Yizhe, Part III. The Evolving Thought of Wang Xizhe and Li Zhengtian, Notes, Bibliography, About the Editors