David Ownby

David Ownby is an Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He recently retired from the Université de Montréal, where he was a history professor for three decades. Since 2018 he has translated the writings of Chinese intellectuals essays on his website Reading the China Dream.

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How China’s New Left Embraced the State

China’s leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s, have shifted from their socialist origins to embrace statism and the China model. Where does that leave their thinking now?

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