Books by Merle Goldman

In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's.

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era.

Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past and speculating about future trends.

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the role of the intellectual in government. Her account of relations between intellectuals and governing elites offers insight into more recent events in the history of the People's Republic.

Goldman examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, she details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights.