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Maps - Liberals



​All of these texts have been written by scholars who identify themselves as "Liberals" in one way or another, although their points of view and arguments range widely.  "Liberal" in China can refer to Hayek supporters who demand free markets and property rights, to professors in the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party who nonetheless embrace constitutional democracy, to "near dissidents" who sound very much like Liu Xiaobo...and much more.  Westerners tend to conflate Chinese "Liberals" with dissidents, but the reality is much for complex.  Many Chinese Liberals support Donald Trump...  

​Cai Xia

"Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party"

Cao Siyuan

“
Constitutional Rule and Inter-Party Democracy” 

Cui Weiping


"Why Does the Spring Breeze Not Warm the Earth?  The 1980s Debate on Humanism in China"​

Deng Yulin


“Chinese Statism, the Transitional Nature of Xi Jinping’s Regime, and America’s Response”

​Gao Quanxi

"The Political Maturity of Chinese Liberalism”

Gao Quanxi and Tian Feilong

“A Discussion of Naturalization Law, Liberal Empire, and Conservative Constitutionalism”

Ge Zhaoguang

"If Horses had Wings:  The Political Demands of Mainland New Confucians in Recent Years"

“Imagining 'All Under Heaven:' the Political, Intellectual and Academic Background of a New Utopia”

Guo Yuhua

"Farewell Sina Weibo"

​"
Original Intentions Start with the People"

"The Shadow of Communist Civilization"


He Weifang

“The Return of the True Scholar:  A Reflection on the University” 

Jin Yan


"Regilding the Empire, Russia's 'New Empire Syndrome'" 

Lao Dongyan

“The Hidden Dangers of Facial Recognition Technology”

​Li Sipan

“Why Don’t Mainland Chinese Liberals Support Women’s Rights?”

​Liang Zhiping

“Imagining ‘Tianxia’:  Building Ideology in Contemporary China" 

"Interview:  Liang Zhiping Talks about Law and Traditional Culture"

​Lin Yao

“I Beg to Differ with Xu Jilin & Co.:  The Intellectual Trap of the (Anti-) Political Correctness Framing”

Liu Qing

“Liberalism in Contemporary China: Potential and Predicaments”​

“Liu Qing:  A Unique Presence in the Chinese Intellectual World”

Liu Yu

"My Daughter is Inexorably Becoming an Ordinary Person"

Liu Yu and Murong Xuecun

“How Did the Concept of 'Public Intellectual' Come to be Stigmatized?”   

Luo Xiang


"Proposal to Increase the Penalties for the Crime of Purchasing Women and Children"

Murong Xuecun and Liu Yu

“
How Did the Concept of 'Public Intellectual' Come to be Stigmatized?”

Qin Hui

"The Battle of Tariffs and Systems in the “North-South” Relationship in the Antebellum United States"
​

“Dilemmas of Twenty-First Century Globalization: Reasons and Solutions
With a Critique of Piketty’s Twenty-First Century Capitalism”


“The ‘Fate of the People and Personal Mission’ in the Rustification Movement” 

​“Jing Ke Stabs Confucius” and “Zilu Sings the Praises of Qinshihuang”

​“
Globalización después de la pandemia:  Pensamientos sobre el coronavirus”

“Globalization after the Pandemic:  Thoughts on the Coronavirus” 
 
"Looking at China from South Africa"

"La mondialisation après la pandémie :  Réflexions sur le Coronavirus"

​“
On the ‘Mainstream Media:’  Replies to a Guest’s Objections Concerning the U.S. Election”

“Ukraine Series No. 1:  The West's ‘Double Standard’ and Putin's ‘Single Standard’—From the Crimean Crisis to Putin's February 21 Declaration” 

“Ukraine Series No. 2:  Aggression and Appeasement—Crimea and Sudetenland Compared” 

"Ukraine Series No. 3:  ’Nazify’ or ‘Denazify?’” 

"Ukraine Series No. 4:  “The Russia-Ukraine War and the Soviet-Finnish ‘Winter War'” 

​"
Ukraine Series No. 5:  Will the Bucha Massacre Put an End to Appeasement?"

"Ukraine Series No. 6:  Appeasement and Collective Security"

"Ukraine Series No. 7:  Appeasement after World War II--Solzhenitsyn's Question"
​
“What was the True Purpose of CCP Land Reform?”

Ren Jiantao

“An Ounce of Prevention:  Technological Revolution and Great Changes to State Governance”

“Let’s Not Simply Misunderstand China as a ‘Utilitarian Society’” ​

"The Periodicity of Reform"

​Rong Jian

“A China Bereft of Thought”​

“Wang Hui’s ‘Heidegger Moment?’”

“What Does the ‘Philosophy of Victory’ of the Revolutionary Mean?  Criticizing Wang Hui’s ‘Revolutionary Personality’ and ‘Philosophy of Victory’”
​
Shi Yinhong

“A Review of the Biden Administration’s Stance on China in terms of Non-Military Strategy” 

​“
The U.S. and Other Major Countries' Policies Toward China and the Future World Configuration”

​Shi Zhan

"
The First Metaverse War"
​
Interview concerning Breaking through the Cocoon

“
How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”

Sun Liping

"Fighting the Virus in China and the West"

​“
Let’s Think it Through:  A Possible Picture of the Post-Pandemic era and the Problems We May Face” 

"Lying Flat is Definitely Not Confined to the Bottom of Society"

​
“The Small Chess Board and the Big Picture:  Russia in the Big Picture May Be Ukraine on the Small Chess Board” 

​"The Whole World May Have Missed This Signal: Trump’s Attack on Political Correctness”

​"You Want Them to Have Three Children?  First, Give Them a Reason"

“2021:  What Kind of World Will We Face?”

Wang Jianxun

“What Trump Plans Is A Return to the ‘American Spirit’"

Wang Jisi 

“Abandon the Conventions of Great Power Relations to Grasp the Framework of International Trends”

​
Xiang Lanxin

"On Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"

Xie Tao

"
2020:  Sino-American Relations and U.S. Politics in the Time of the Pandemic”

​"
2020:  Las relaciones sino-estadounidenses y la política americana en tiempos de pandemia"

Xu Jilin

“After the Great "Disembedding":  Family-State, Tianxia and Self-Identity”

“Cultural Factors in Different Models of Fighting the Coronavirus”

​“Four Chinese Scholars Discuss the United States after the Election”

​“
Getting a Hold on Tradition Requires Building Cultural Consciousness”

​“
How to ‘Redimension the Enlightenment’ When Dealing with Houlang Culture” 

“’I am a Child of the Nineteenth Century:’ The Last Twenty years of Wang Yuanhua’s Life”

 ​"Looking at American Political Correctness and Identity Politics through the Lens of the Anti-Racist Movement"

“Modern Politics is Live and Let Live”

​"Reflecting on 'Black Lives Matter'"

“The New Tianxia:  Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order”

"China’s Generation Z?  What are houlang and houlang Culture?"

 “What Body for Confucianism's Wandering Soul?”

​“What Kind of Civilization?  Decision at a Crossroads”

"¿Qué clase de civilización?  China en una encrucijada"

Xu Xiaonian

"Two China Models"

Xu Zhangrun

“China’s Moment in World History:  A 'Chinese Consciousness' Created by the 'China Problem'"

Yan Xuetong

“Why and How to Prevent the Intensification of Ideological Disputes between China and the US”​

"Por qué y cómo prevenir la intensificación de las disputas ideológicas entre China y los EE.UU."

Yu Keping

“Interview with Professor Yu Keping:  Solving the Riddle of China’s Governance”​

Yuan Peng

"Political Gamesmanship and American Chaos"

"The Coronavirus Pandemic and a Hundred-Year Change"

“
La pandemia de Coronavirus: Un cambio que solo sucede una vez por siglo”​

“The High-Level Strategic Dialogue is Imminent—Where are Sino-American Relations Heading?”

Zhou Lian

“Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”

​"Three Myths Concerning Chinese Trumpists"

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