Shao Jiang’s research focuses on politics and the media, political economy, political sociology, social movements, and democratisation in China. His publications include Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015). His current project investigates minkan (‘citizen publications’) and the trajectories of intellectual history from the late Qing era through to contemporary China. He is a visiting scholar at the School of Global and Area Studies at Oxford University, UK.
Scholars have long debated whether the transition from the Mao Zedong era to Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Opening Up was a moment of rupture or continuity. One influential view holds that the 1980s saw a rise of Western-influenced liberalism (Calhoun 1994) and Deng’s program marked a ‘fundamental departure’ from Maoism (Vogel 2011). This rupture thesis […]
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