Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future CCP Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm

arguing that it offers new vocabularies with which to reconceptualize equality and freedom

for the West and the world

This book combines close readings of a wide range of texts—from the works of established figures to the writings of amateur workers drawn from the factory floor—with analysis of Chinese socialist political economy

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future CCP Challenging both the bureaucratic one-partyUsing history to challenge Communist Party rule. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history. The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In