Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. A Marxian message to the pre-industrialised societies
3. Social and economic conditions in China
4. The road to Marxism
5. Chinese Marxism through the Cold War prism
6. The first fruits I: the removal of delusive prejudices
7. The first fruits II: towards a Marxian cultural theory
8. Mao Zedong's thought
9. Chinese Marxism in action: two case studies
10. The Thermidorean reaction: a crisis of legitimacy
11. Conclusion

About the Author

Adrian Chan is Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.