Download or read book China's Intellectuals and the State written by Merle Goldman and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1987 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the troubled and changing relationship today's intellectuals in China have to the state. It focuses primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China's renewed quest for modernization have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making.