Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals

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Guolin Yi is an Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas Tech University and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His research interests focus on the cultural history of modern China, particularly the media in the larger context of China’s interactions with the West. His work has been published in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations and American Journalism among others. His book The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement 1963-1972: A Comparative Study is forthcoming with the Louisiana State University Press in November 2020.

Notes

1 Timothy Cheek, Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Merle Goldman, An Intellectual History of Modern China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002); China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (Harvard University Press; 1988); Chinese Intellectuals: Between State and Market (Routledge, 2005).

2 Sebastian Veg, Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), 7–8, 17.

3 Veg, 31, 7.

4 Ibid., 27.

5 Ibid., 248.

6 Ibid., 251.

7 Ibid., 249–251.

8 Ibid., 111.