Yiching Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yiching Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yiching |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mao’s Cultural War
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a sweeping mass assault that shook the political foundations of China’s Leninist party-state. But why was it called a “cultural revolution”? What, precisely, was “cultural” about Mao’s last revolutionary endeavor? Focusing on the ideological and cultural struggles that preceded and shaped its early phase, this article challenges the prevailing narrative that assumes Mao conceived of the Cultural Revol…
Civil War in Guangxi
The Strange Case of China
What are the lessons to be drawn from post-Mao China’s transition toward capitalism, and from the historical experience of the country’s revolutionary past? In contrast to the view advocated by many critics on the left that opposes post-Mao China’s “reform and opening up” to Mao’s radical utopianism, this essay interprets China’s postsocialist transformation as part of a continuous process of political maneuvers to contain, neutralize, and displa…
The Great Retreat and its Discontents
By late 1967, there had been clear signs that China’s Cultural Revolution had entered the phase of retrenchment and moderation. Despite continuing radical extravagance, Beijing’s efforts revolved around taming the divided mass movement and establishing new organs of local power. In this nationwide milieu, the province of Hunan stood out as a remarkable exception. It was in Hunan that there emerged a diffused yet vigorous movement in opposition to…
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution
Over three decades after China ventured onto the market path, the Chinese state’s reform programme, which was intended to invigorate socialism, has instead led the country down a capitalist path. This paper situates China’s post-Mao transition in the context of the crisis of the party-state during the Cultural Revolution. Using Gramsci’s idea of ‘passive revolution’, it examines the state’s tactics of crisis management aiming to contain and neutr…
Privatizing China
Peer Reviewed
Rethinking 'Capitalist Restoration' in China
Over a quarter century after China ventured onto the market path, it is high time to take a hard look and ask some very tough questions. That is what Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett did in "China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle" (Monthly Review, July-August 2004) and they concluded that "market reforms" have fundamentally subverted Chinese socialism. The considerable costs of economic liberalization, they argued, reflect t…
Prelude to Culture
Prelude to Culture
Rethinking 'Capitalist Restoration' in China
Over a quarter century after China ventured onto the market path, it is high time to take a hard look and ask some very tough questions. That is what Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett did in "China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle" (Monthly Review, July-August 2004) and they concluded that "market reforms" have fundamentally subverted Chinese socialism. The considerable costs of economic liberalization, they argued, reflect t…
Privatizing China
Peer Reviewed
Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution
Over three decades after China ventured onto the market path, the Chinese state’s reform programme, which was intended to invigorate socialism, has instead led the country down a capitalist path. This paper situates China’s post-Mao transition in the context of the crisis of the party-state during the Cultural Revolution. Using Gramsci’s idea of ‘passive revolution’, it examines the state’s tactics of crisis management aiming to contain and neutr…
The Great Retreat and its Discontents
By late 1967, there had been clear signs that China’s Cultural Revolution had entered the phase of retrenchment and moderation. Despite continuing radical extravagance, Beijing’s efforts revolved around taming the divided mass movement and establishing new organs of local power. In this nationwide milieu, the province of Hunan stood out as a remarkable exception. It was in Hunan that there emerged a diffused yet vigorous movement in opposition to…
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
The Strange Case of China
What are the lessons to be drawn from post-Mao China’s transition toward capitalism, and from the historical experience of the country’s revolutionary past? In contrast to the view advocated by many critics on the left that opposes post-Mao China’s “reform and opening up” to Mao’s radical utopianism, this essay interprets China’s postsocialist transformation as part of a continuous process of political maneuvers to contain, neutralize, and displa…
Mao’s Cultural War
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a sweeping mass assault that shook the political foundations of China’s Leninist party-state. But why was it called a “cultural revolution”? What, precisely, was “cultural” about Mao’s last revolutionary endeavor? Focusing on the ideological and cultural struggles that preceded and shaped its early phase, this article challenges the prevailing narrative that assumes Mao conceived of the Cultural Revol…
Civil War in Guangxi
Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · China (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Cultural revolution (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Socialism (4 works)