By Catherine Lynch; Robert B. Marks and Paul G. Pickowicz - Contributions by Tina Mai Chen; Bruce Cumings; Lee Feigon; Sooyoung Kim and Thomas Lutze

Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, this volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through contested visions of the future. It contributes new insights into Mao Zedong, including his surprising relations with the Dalai Lama, and into Communist legacies for the environment, the rural economy, and independent filmmaking as protest, at the same time posing the question of whether the radical past of envisioning new paths to a modern future has yet a role to play.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical Context Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Individualism and Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century China: Chen Duxiu's Pre-Marxist Intellectual Commitments, 1904-1918 Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950s Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Mao and Tibet Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Chinese Communists and the Environment Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Post-Socialist Capitalism in Contemporary China Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural China Chapter 9 Chapter 8. The "Rise of China"?