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Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
ISBN: 9780231549400
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Political Science;

Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian --unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people--intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China's public culture. Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere.

Sebastian Veg is a Research Professor at the China Center at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris) and Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published numerous articles, primarily in English, including in China Perspectives , Journal of Chinese Cinemas , China Quarterly , and New Left Review . His first book was in French ( Fictions du pouvoir chinois. Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XXe siècle , 2009, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Press) and was reviewed in both French and English. He has also published in Le Monde , the Atlantic , and the LARB blog.Sebastian Veg is professor of the intellectual history of twentieth-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is the author of Fictions du pouvoir chinois. Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XXe siècle (2009) and the editor of Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History (2019).