Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past

How does emotion shape public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. Covering forty years (1978–2018) of bitter cultural wars, Tu analyzes how liberals, the left, cultural conservatives, and nationalists debated Mao’s revolutionary legacies.

• | Author: Hang Tu
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 18, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674297579
• | ISBN-10: 0674297571