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This menu simply lists the names of all individuals whose texts we have translated in alphabetical order, so that those searching for the work of a particular intellectual can find it easily.

Anonymous

“I Was Lucky Enough to Live through a Joke”  

Bai Tongdong 

“The Margins of Civilization—Reflections on the Historical Position of Chinese Civilization and the Progress of Human Civilization” 

Bao Gangsheng, Zhou Lian, Shi Zhan, and Liu Suli

"The Pitfalls of Pluralism—Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Politics” 

Beijing Cultural Review

“The Beijing Cultural Review on the rise of Trump and the End of American Hegemony”

Cai Xia 

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

Cao Jinqing

"A Centennial Revival:  The Historical Narrative and Mission of the Chinese Communist Party"

Cao Siyuan

“Constitutional Rule and Inter-Party Democracy” 

Chang Yinting and Yang Xia

“Feminist Discourse:  Its Chinese Context and Contemporary Value”

​Chen Lai

“A Century of Confucianism: Looking Back and Looking Forward”

Chen Duanhong

“2020 National Constitution Day Symposium Keynote Speech: National Security and the Constitution”

Chen Jian

“How Should We Evaluate Gorbachev?” 

Chen Ming

​"The Road to Confucian Civil Religion"

“Transcend Left and Right, Unite the Three Traditions, Renew the Party-State :  A Confucian Interpretation of the China Dream” 

Chen Ping

“What’s Wrong with America’s Global Strategy?” 

Chen Ruiyan

"Why is it so Hard for Farmers to Build Houses?"

Chen Yang and Guo Wanying

“Young People Returning to Dongbei”

Chen Yaya

“Will the Arrival of the Three-Child Policy Open up New Opportunities for Single Mothers?” 

Chen Zhiwu

“Civilization, Crisis, and How We Act in ‘Abnormal’ Situations”

Cui Qinglong

"Why are We More and More Exhausted?"
 
Cui Weiping

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

Cui Zhiyuan

“Comparing the Ideas of Trump’s Former Advisor Steve Bannon and the Legendary Putin Advisor Aleksandr Dugin”

“The ‘Security Dilemma,’ Constructivism, and the Ukraine Crisis”​

​Deng Yulin

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

“Xi Jiping’s Regime is the Twilight of Totalitarianism”

Fang Ning and Feng Jungung

“A Potentially Dramatic Change May Subject Chinese Society to Two Major Shocks”

Fu Yu and Gui Yong

"The Five Intriguing Paradoxes of Contemporary Chinese Young People"

Gan Yang

 “’Unifying the Three Traditions’ in the New Era:  The Merging of Three Chinese Traditions”

“Liberalism:  For the Aristocrats or for the People?” 

“Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism”

“The Modernity Critique of the 1980s and the Transformation of the 1990s”

“Thucydides and the ‘Thucydides Trap’” 
 
Gan Yang and Liu Xiaofeng

“The Cultural Positioning and Self-Betrayal of Peking University” 

“Re-Reading the West” 

Gao Cheng 

“Is the Conflict Turning Around?  How Russia and Ukraine Think Will Determine How Things Develop Moving Forward” 

Gao Quanxi

“Left and Right are Getting Along Just Fine”

“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"

Byung-Chul Han

“Asian Countries are Managing this Crisis better than the West"

He Weifang

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

Huang Jisu

“Left and Right are Getting Along Just Fine”

Hu Lianhe and Hu An'gang

"How the Nationalities Question is Handled Outside of China"

Huang Qifan

"Three Thoughts on the Reconstruction of World Supply Chains in the wake of the Spread of the Coronavirus"

Huang Zhihui

“From Absentee Landlords to Absentee Farmers:  The Transformation of Farmers’ Living Patterns and Rural Revitalization in the Context of Reciprocal Relations between Towns and Villages” 

Jia Jun, Wen Juan, and Shi Dong

“Two Charter Planes, one from Jiangsu-Zhejiang, the other from Taiwan, Paint the Grimmest Metaphor of the Next Thirty Years”   

Jiang Ruiping

“The Coronavirus Pandemic is Accelerating the Reshaping of East Asia”

Jiang Qing

“Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women”
 
Jiang Shigong

“Commerce and Human Rights, Part One:  World Empire and the Roots of American Behavior”

​“Commerce and Human Rights (Part Two)—Sino-American Competition in the Context of World Empire”  

​'Filosofía e Historia: Interpretando la "Era Xi Jinping" a través del Informe de Xi Jinping al Decimonoveno Congreso Nacional del PCCh' ​

"Imperial History without Empires"

“Meng Wanzhou Surely Won’t be the Last:  The Hidden Logic of the American ‘Hand-Over’” 

“Philosophy and History:  Interpreting the ‘Xi Jinping Era’ through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the CCP”

“Probing the ‘Imaginary World’ and the ‘Real World’ to Understand the Internal Legal Logic of Hong Kong's National Security Law”

"The 'Critical Decade' in the Sino-American Relationship:  the 'New Roman Empire” and the 'New Great Struggle'"

"La 'Década Crítica' en la relación chino-americana: el 'Nuevo Imperio Romano' y la 'Nueva Gran Lucha'"

​“The Internal Logic of Super-Sized Political Entities:  ‘Empire’ and World Order”

“The Rise of a Great Power and the Revival of Civilization: The Taiwan Issue and the ‘Enduring War of Civilization’” 

“World Empire and the Return of Civilization:  Taking Seriously the Post-Cold War Discourse of Civilizational Revival”

​Jie Dalei

“Ideology and Sino-American Strategic Competition” 

"Ideología y competencia estratégica sino-estadounidense"

Jin Guantao

"The Mentality of Many People Today Marks a Return to the 19th Century”

Jin Yan

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

Kang Xiaoguang and Wang Shaoguang

"The Development and the Future of the Third Sector in China"

Lao Dongyan

“The Hidden Dangers of Facial Recognition Technology”  

Li Fangchun

“What Does it Mean to ‘Explain Antiquity’? On the Classics, History, and Dao of the Chinese Revolution—An Exploration Based on the Land Reform Movement in Northern China’s Liberated Areas” 

Li Qiang

“Characteristics and Trends of the Dramatic Changes in China's Social Stratification in the Last 20 Years: A Tsinghua Professor Speaks Out”  

​Li Sipan

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

Li Yinhe

“Compared to Money and Power, Love Can Give People the Greatest Happiness” 

​A Dialogue Between Chizuko Ueno and Li Yinhe, “Feminists are those who Pursue Liberty and Justice”

Li Zehou

“Li Zehou Thanks his Readers in his Final Interview” 

Liang Hong

“Letting People from my Home Village have their Say” 

“No matter where the currents of this era take you, you have to keep hold of yourself”

Liang Jianzhang

Interview with Liang Jianzhang, “Why are Today’s Young People Not Having Children?”

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 Suli, with Bao Gangsheng, Shi Zhan, and Zhou Lian

"The Pitfalls of Pluralism—Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Politics” 

Liu Xiaofeng

“The Historical Paradox of the Idea of the Great Atlantic Revolution” 

Liu Xinting 

“Why are Contemporary Youth Increasingly ‘Unhappy?’  Focus on the Living Conditions of China’s Youth”

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?”   

Lu Nanfeng and Wu Jing

“Historical Transformation and Grand Narrative: A Political Analysis of the ‘Industrial Party,’ an Online Intellectual Trend”

Lü Dewen

"If the ‘Grassroots’ are not Solid, Everything Starts to Waver” 

“Why an ‘Ordinary’ Case Touched the Nerve of Society as a Whole: A Sociological Approach to Analysis—The Case of the Tangshan Beating Incident” 

Lü Pin

“How the Thwarted Feminist Movement Gave Birth to a New Generation of Blank Paper Revolutionaries”

Luo Minmin

“The Epidemic Will Eventually End, But How Should We Deal with the Trauma of Social Depression?”


Luo Xiang

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

Ma Rong

“The Historical Evolution China’s System of Autonomous Ethnic Regions”

Murong Xuecun and Liu Yu

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

Pan Nini

“How the ‘Little Pinks’ were Born:  Analyzing ‘Fan Patriotism’ in the Internet Era” 

Qian Liqun

“A Few Questions Concerning Mao Zedong and his Era”

"We Need the Village, and the Village Needs Us"

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” ​

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

“Globalization after the Pandemic:  Thoughts on the Coronavirus” 

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

"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"

"Ukraine Series No. 8:  “Who Blew up the Kakhovka Dam?”"

“What was the True Purpose of CCP Land Reform?”

Qing Qingzi

“Intel Pulls Yang Li’s Ad:  Who is Creating the “Male-Female Antagonism?’” 

Rao Yi

"Rao Yi, Sick with the Coronavirus, Shares his Questions concerning China’s Policy for Epidemic Prevention and his Ideas for 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 concering Breaking through the Cocoon

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

“Preface to a New Edition of The Hub:  How Writing Historical Philosophy is Becoming Possible Today”

Shi Zhan, with Bao Gangsheng, Zhou Lian, and Liu Suli

"The Pitfalls of Pluralism—Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Politics” 

Su Qinian

“Sexually Suggestive Images Should Not Appear on Children’s Clothing” 

Sun Ge

“The Significance of Borders”

Sun Liping

“An Informal Discussion of Hot Topics in Today’s Economy and Society” 

"Fighting the Virus in China and the West"

“If sheep don’t like to be tied up, it is not necessarily because they want to do something bad”

“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"

“On the Trafficking of Women: The Deep, Utilitarian Logic of Famous People and the Simple, Civilized Logic of Children”

"Overproduction is the Real Problem We are Facing Now"

“The Scarring Effect: Don't Think Everything Will Be Fine once the Pandemic is Over” 

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

“A Subplot in the Overall World Context” ​

“Three Views of the Domestic Demand Question” 

"What's Wrong with our Experts?"

"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?”

Tian Xuan

Tian Xuan and Xue Zhaofeng, “A Distressing Debate:  Is it perhaps Time for those Experts still Defending Cashing in on a National Disaster to Wake up?”  

Chizuko Ueno

A Dialogue Between Chizuko Ueno and Li Yinhe, “Feminists are those who Pursue Liberty and Justice”

V Shanshan

“Please Tell Me:  On What Basis are you Forcing me to Embrace Solidarity?”

Wang Hui

“The Economy of a Rising China and it Contradictions”

“The Revolutionary Personality and the Philosophy of Victory:  Commemorating Lenin’s 150th Birthday”

Wang Huning

“Cultural Expansion and Cultural Sovereignty:  A Challenge to the Concept of Sovereignty”

“Reflections on the Cultural Revolution and the Reform of China's Political System”

​Forged version of "Reflections on the Cultural Revolution and the Reform of China's Political System"

“The Structure of China’s Changing Political Culture”

​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”

Wang Shaoguang

“Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy”

“Traditional Moral Politics and Contemporary Concepts of Governance”

Wang Shaoguang and Kang Xiaoguang

"The Development and the Future of the Third Sector in China"

Wang Yuhang

“The ‘Past and Present Lives’ of Historical Nihilism”

Wen Jiajun

“China’s Pending Climate Crisis and the Absence of Climate Justice”

Wen Tiejun

“The Modernization of the Chinese People”

Wu Changchang

“Video Sites and the ‘Involution’ of State Power” 

Wu Chaojin and Zhang Jinrong

“A Sociological Interpretation of ‘Goofing Off:’ Where Did This Online Youth Dilemma Come From?”

Wu Fei

"When Four Young People Plunged to their Deaths in Zhangjiajie, it Was Not a Simple Matter of Blind Suicide"

Wu Jun

“Being Infected Does Not Mean Getting Sick; We Need to Calm the Covid Panic” 

Wu Xinbo

The Observer Interview with Prof. Wu Xinbo, “Three Meetings in Two days:  How was Blinken’s trip to China?”

Xiang Biao

"Excerpts from Self as Method"

“The Theory of ‘Concentrated Mobility’ and the ‘Gyro-Economy:’ Understanding Social Change in China through SARS and the Coronavirus”

“The End of the ‘Educated  Youth Era’ in Chinese Social Science”

Xiang Lanxin

"On Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"

Xiang Shuai

"Xiang Shuai's 2023 Wealth Forecast"

​Xiao Gongqin

“The Five Logical Steps from Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy: A Macrohistorical Perspective on Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms”

Xiao Sanza

"Trumpism and the Future of China"

“Left and Right are Getting Along Just Fine”

Xiao Shuyan

“From ‘Chasing after Mutual Funds’ to ‘Forming a Group to Pinch Pennies’—Why Does this Generation of Youth Persist in ‘Doing Money’?”

Xie Maosong

“The Chinese Communist Party is a New Civilization” 

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"

Xiong Chunwen

“Polarization: The Structure of the Education System Behind the Culture of Migrant Workers’ Children”

Xu Jilin

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

“A Discussion:  Does ChatGPT Signal the Birth of a New World, on the Beginning of the End?”

“Getting a Hold on Tradition Requires Building Cultural Consciousness”

​“Cultural Factors in Different Models of Fighting the Coronavirus”

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

“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”

“A Professor Reflects:  How to Understand the Shock Lived by 24 Million Shanghainese”

"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 Kaiwen

“How Hard it is to Become a Mentally Healthy Student, Given ‘Hollow-Heart Disease’ and the Anxieties of Our Age?" 

​Xu Xiaonian

"Two China Models"

Xu Zhangrun

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

Xue Zhaofeng

“To Consume is to be Linked to Other People in the World”  

Xue Zhaofeng and Tian Xuan 

“A Distressing Debate:  Is it perhaps Time for those Experts still Defending Cashing in on a National Disaster to Wake up?”

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."

Yan Yilong

"Socialism Riding Herd on Capital"

Yang Kuisong

“Facing up to China’s Revolution”

Yang Xiong

“The Roots of and Solution to ‘Education Involution’ in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Yao Yang 

"Before My Grandfather's Portrait"

“The Challenges Facing the Chinese Communist Party and the Reconstruction of Political Philosophy” 

"China's Economic Future is Bright"

“The Dilemma of China’s Democratization” 

"The End of Ideology?"

“How to Correctly Understand Common Prosperity”

“Is a New Cold War Coming?”

“My View of Revolutionary History”

"Rebuilding China's Political Philosophy"

"Three Days Back in the Village"

​"The Vanishing Town"

Yao Yang and Qin Zizhong

"An Analysis of Confucian Liberalism"

“Who Will Finally Be Able to Resolve the ‘Inequality’ Problem?” 

Youthology

"A Diary of Four Years of Psychological Treatment:  From Seeking Help to Helping Others"

“Let Shanghai Be Seen, Let the Cry for Help Continue” 

​"The Year 2022 ​in Review: Growing up on the Margins” 

Yu Liang

“The Genealogy and Ecology of the Little Pinks, and the Future of Chinese Youth”

Yu Keping

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

​Yuan Ling

Outside Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road:  The Vagrant Life of a Family with Five Off-Plan Children

​Yuan Peng

"The Coronavirus Pandemic and a Hundred-Year Change"

​“Fundamental Principles Maintaining and Shaping National Security in the New Era—Studying the Outline of the Comprehensive National Security Concept” ​

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

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

"Political Gamesmanship and American Chaos"

Zeng Yi

"From Kang Youwei to Deng Xiaoping"

Zhang Cheng

“The Methodology of the Chinese Path:  China as Center and Method” 

Zhang Qianfan 

“Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”

Zhang Tianqi

“Hengshui High School:  The Story of a Dragon-Slaying Child that became an Evil Dragon” 

Zhang Weiwei

“Creating Chaos and Turmoil, the Myth of American Democracy is Shattered—The United States Incites 'Color Revolutions' and Endangers World Peace and Stability” 

“It is Entirely Possible to Tell the Story of Chinese Politics in a More Accurate and Exciting Way”

"Say No to 'Spiritual Americans'"

Zhang Xianming

“The Logic of the Politics of Responsibility in Full-Process Democracy” 

Zhang Yinghong

"Behind the Latest News, the Three Forces Challenging Grassroots Governance” 

Zhang Yongle

"The Harm of Studying Abroad"
 
Zhao Gang

“Why is this Generation of Young People so Easily Tricked?  The Thoughts of a Professor from Taiwan.” 

Zhao Tingyang

“A Feasible Smart Democracy”

​Zhao Yanjing

“China’s Choice in the Russia-Ukraine War” 

“China’s Real Estate at a Crossroads” 

“The Claims are Flooding in, and it is Urgent to Rebuild the Core Narrative of ‘China’s Fight against the Virus’”

“Fertility, Elder Care, Employment, and Urban Planning” 

“Should We Bail Out Local Government Debt?  If So, How?”

“What We Should Do in Response to American’s Technological Decoupling” 

Zheng Ge

“’Do We Really Have No Other Choice This Time?’ Frank Words from a Shanghai Father” 

Zheng Shiqu

“Encourage the Broad Masses of Youth to Work Tirelessly for National Rejuvenation”

Zheng Yongnian

“The ‘Balloon Incident’ and the Future of  Sino-American Relations” 

“The War in Ukraine Blurs the Two Main Lines, But Many People Misunderstand China's Role” 

Zhou An'an 

“The Supreme Court Finally Overturned the Idea that ‘996 is a Blessing,’ but Did not Address the Larger Problems of the Platform Economy” 

Zhou An'an and Wu Jing

"The whole country is working hard, and I'm just one of those workers" 

​Zhou Lian 

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

"Three Myths Concerning Chinese Trumpists"

“Who are America’s Children:  A Critique of Huntington’s Who Are We” 

Zhou Lian, with Bao Gangsheng, Shi Zhan, and Liu Suli

"The Pitfalls of Pluralism—Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Politics” 

Zuo Fengrong

“The Thucydides Trap and a New Type of Great Power Relationship: Discursive Competition in Sino-American Relations”