Marxism and the Chinese Experience

Arif Dirlik, Ann Anagnost, Marc Blecher, Bill Brugger, Edward Friedman, Ted Huters, Richard C. Kraus

• Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Politics, Scholarship, and Chinese Socialism, Arif Dirlik, Meisner Maurice; Chapter 2 Revolutionary Hegemony and the Language of Revolution: Chinese Socialism between Present and Future, Arif Dirlik; Part 2 Political Economy; Chapter 3 Mao Zedong and The Political Economy of Chinese Development, Mark Selden; Chapter 4 On the Organization of Production under Socialism, Peter Schran; Chapter 5 Marx, Mao, and Deng on the Division of Labor in History, Maurice Meisner; Chapter 6 Mao, Science, Technology, and Humanity, Bill Brugger; Chapter 7 Socialism and Economic Development: The Politics of Accumulation in China, Penelope B. Prime; Chapter 8 Restructuring the Working Class: Labor Reform in Post-Mao China, Cordon White; Part 3 Social Relations, Political Power, and Culture; Chapter 9 Theorizing the Democratization of China’s Leninist State, Edward Friedman; Chapter 10 Structural Change and the Political Articulation of Social Interest in Revolutionary and Socialist China, Marc Blecher; Chapter 11 Prosperity and Counterprosperity: The Moral Discourse on Wealth in Post-Mao China, Ann Anagnost; Chapter 12 Hegemony and Productivity: Workers in Post-Mao China, Lisa Rofel; Chapter 13 Chicken Little in China: Some Reelections on Women, Marilyn Young; Chapter 14 Feminist Humanism: Socialism and Neofeminism in the Writings of Zhang Jie, Roxann Prazniak; Chapter 15 The Lament of Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi: China’s Intellectuals in a Global Context, Richard C. Kraus; Chapter 16 Between Praxis and Essence: The Search for Cultural Expression in the Chinese Revolution, Ted Huters; Part 4 Conclusions; Chapter 17 The Deradicalization of Chinese Socialism, Maurice Meisner; Chapter 18 Postsocialism? Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”, Arif Dirlik;