Written by a member of China’s ‘New Left’, this book provides an of Chinese modernity (whose unique combination of capitalism and quasi-communist policies is not found anywhere else in the world). Looking at China’s ‘current state of mass depoliticzation’, critiquing the Chinese economic miracle, and outlining the tensions between liberalization and the ruling elite’s hegemony, this book outlines the major issues and contradictions facing today’s China. See in particular Wang’s writings on Tiannanmen Square.