Intellectuals at a crossroads : the changing politics of China's knowledge workers / Zhidong Hao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hao, Zhidong, 1952-

Series:

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional employees--Political activity--China.

Professional employees.

Professional employees--Political activity.

China.

Intellectuals--Political activity--China.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Political activity.

Knowledge workers--Political activity--China.

Knowledge workers.

Political participation.

China--Intellectual life--1949-.

Intellectual life.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxv, 496 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Cross-roads, examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic intellectuals who serve specific interests, from government and business to working class movements; critical intellectuals who defy authority with continued social criticism; and "unattached" intellectuals who are fast being professionalized. Using a historical-comparative approach enhanced with demographic and rare interview data, the book bridges the traditional with the modern and the Chinese with the foreign by exploring how these intellectuals are adapting to their roles and influencing political, economic, and social change in the new China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-475) and indexes.

ISBN:

0791455793

0791455807

OCLC:

51336384