About

This web site is devoted to the subject of intellectual life in contemporary China, and more particularly to the writings of establishment intellectuals.  What you will find here are essentially translations of Chinese texts that we consider important, together with discussions of related issues and a number of reference tools that can help those interested to navigate the project.
 
The web site will organize our translations in a variety of ways.

• The Maps menu follows the nomenclature used by Chinese intellectuals and regroups intellectuals according to their affiliation:  Liberal, New Left, New Confucian, other. 
• The People menu lists all intellectuals whose texts we have translated alphabetically, for ease of use. 
• The Projects menu regroups the texts in terms of publication projects in which we are engaged, thus providing a larger context in which to understand the intellectuals and their work.
• The Extras menu covers non-textual matter:
  • The Training menu treats the pedagogical aspects of our project. 
  • The Wiki menu provides a space for interested parties to work on translations together.
  • The Tools menu is a grab bag of links toward other people and resources engaged in similar undertakings.

Reading the China Dream is run by David Ownby (professor of history at the Université de Montréal and, at present, webmaster for the site, please contact at ownby.david@gmail.com), Timothy Cheek (professor of history at the University of British Columbia) and Joshua Fogel (professor of history at York University).  This website is a core product of the project Reading and Writing the China Dream, which is funded by an Insight grant from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada.  We draw inspiration from Geremie Barmé and his new sinology.  Project collaborators include: Xu Jilin and Liu Qing at East China Normal Univeristy in Shanghai, and Gloria Davies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Liu Jing at UBC.  The names of the students, post-docs, and young professors associated with the project are included under the Training menu.