 “Once a fervent Marxist, I had parted ways with Marxism and increasingly looked to Western thought for answers to China’s problems. Once a proud defender of official policy, I had begun to make the case for liberalization. Once a loyal member of the CCP, I was secretly harboring doubts about the sincerity of its beliefs and its concern for the Chinese people. So I should not have been surprised when it turned out that Xi was no reformer.”
From 1998 to 2012, Cai Xia was a professor at the Central Party School in Beijing, the core of the Chinese Communist Party’s system of ideological indoctrination. For the first time, she chronicles her decades-long process of grappling with China’s official ideology, culminating in a complete break with the CCP.
Read more from Foreign Affairs on Chinese politics:
“China’s Coming Upheaval” by Minxin Pei “China Is Done Biding Its Time” by Kurt M. Campbell and Mira Rapp-Hooper “China’s Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health” by Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Julian Gewirtz “Without Democracy, China Will Rise No Farther” by Jiwei Ci “The New Tiananmen Papers: Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China” by Andrew J. Nathan
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