Intellectuals at a crossroads
Subtitle: the changing politics of China's knowledge workers
By: Zhidong Hao.
Series: SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Professional employees -- China -- Political activity.; Intellectuals -- China -- Political activity.; Knowledge workers -- China -- Political activity.; China -- Intellectual life -- 1949-; China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
Description: "Intellectuals at a Crossroads 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-475) and indexes.