Xiao Shu thus touched upon a painful truth in contemporary Chinese intellectual history: freedom could only survive in the cracks of the system, relying on the protection of power rather than being guaranteed by the system itself.
《八十年代的一束思想之光》, 壹嘉出版, 2024.
Xiao Shu thus touched upon a painful truth in contemporary Chinese intellectual history: freedom could only survive in the cracks of the system, relying on the protection of power rather than being guaranteed by the system itself.
《八十年代的一束思想之光》, 壹嘉出版, 2024.
One of China's most influential popular historians, @xiaoshu1 has just penned this essay in @MinjianArchives on a key magazine in the 1980s, its calls for political reform, and why those efforts could never be realized.
https://t.co/R1h9SiGfur