%0 Journal Article
%T Dreaming a Future for China: Visions of Socialism among Chinese Intellectuals in the Early 1930s
%A Nicola Spakowski
%J Modern China
%@ 1552-6836
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0097700418767609
%X The article examines Chinese leftist intellectuals¡¯ visions of China¡¯s future as they were published in a special issue of Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) in 1933. It places their texts in the international tradition of socialism and in particular the tensions between Marxism and ¡°utopian socialism.¡± Two variants of socialism can be identified in the Chinese texts: ¡°Datong socialism,¡± the moral vision of a society of freedom and equality, and Soviet socialism, the vision of an industrialized society with features and institutions as in the Soviet Union. Supporters of both variants identified with the ¡°masses,¡± but remained elitist in that they spoke on behalf of these masses and claimed an intellectual niche in the proletarian society of the future
%K China
%K 1930s
%K future
%K socialism
%K utopian socialism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0097700418767609