This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) explores China’s path to socialist modernisation as a world historical process. The essays highlight the experimental nature of socialism, China’s unique institutional mechanisms of industrial development, and debates over agrarian transformation in a context of persistent ideological struggle.
Xiong Jie reviews Lu Xinyu’s influential analysis of the agrarian question and rural modernisation in China, highlighting debates between neoliberal and socialist approaches within contemporary Chinese thought. Read More