On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: The Li Yizhe Debates

by Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen, Jonathan Unger

Book Overview

In 1974, a small group of young intellectuals, the Li Yizhe group, circulated their dissident manifesto, 'On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System, ' a probing critique of the leftist authoritarianism of Mao Zedong. This title examines the writings of these dissidents as a means to better understand the views of non-Party Marxists in their struggle to defy the government and construct their own vision of a socialist China. Originally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138194158
• ISBN13: 9781138194151
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"