Sentimental Republic. Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past, Hardback/Hang Tu

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. Publisher: Harvard University Press Author(s): Hang Tu Illustration(s): 8 color photos Number of pages: 315 Collection: Harvard East Asian Monographs Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 236 x 162 x 28 Cover type: Hardback