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Thinking the Unthinkable
Exploration of the oeuvre of Ci Jiwei, one of the most original social theorists of the contemporary Chinese world. Diagnostics of national consciousness, from Maoist utopianism to a nihilism numbed by consumerist hedonism. Might rising living standards—and the ‘equality of conditions’ already achieved by the Revolution—engender a Polanyian semi-democratization, in the Party’s own interest?