Chinese intellectual discourse and society, 1978-88: The case of Li Zehou
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 132, S. 969-998
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
The author explores the development of contemporary Chinese intellectual discourse by analysing Li Zehou's (a senior research fellow in the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) philosophical ideas, his theories on Chinese traditional culture and his political role in the late 1980s. Lin Min points out that Li has made substantial contributions to the two pillars (revitalization of Marxism and nationalism) of Communist Party legitimacy in China in the post-Mao era. (DÜI-Sen)