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Chinese Marxists: Words, Thoughts, Teachers.

Tings Chak and I are working on a project of interviewing three Chinese Marxists who were born in the 1960s and who came of age in the first decade of the ‘reform and opening up’ period, and worked to understand the process of the Chinese Revolution.

To that end, I spent the past week in Shanghai interviewing two intellectuals.

First, I interviewed Fudan University’s Professor Meng Jie along with Guancha leader Li Bo. To have a snippet of Meng Jie’s work, read this essay by him in Wenhua Zongheng on industrial policy with Chinese characteristics.

Second, I interviewed East China Normal University’s Professor Lu Xinyu along with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Xiong Jie, who had reviewed Xinyu’s book for Wenhua.

We had such a fun set of days talking about their intellectual and political formation, their readings and their influences, and then their intellectual careers. We have one more interview to do and then we will try our best to hasten the project along. This book is part of a wider project on Studies on Marxism in China.