A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China's "New Left"

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the roots of China's social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the current state of mass depoliticization.
Arguing that China's revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian past.
From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China's future.

"A central figure among a group of writers and academics known collectively as the New Left." - The New York Times Magazine

"One of China's leading historians and most interesting and influential public intellectuals." - Los Angeles Times

"Wang Hui brings a distinctive Chinese voice to the discussion of globalization and neoliberalism." - Chinese Development Brief

"Our focus on the country's future has led to a de facto collusion with the Chinese government in ignoring its past ... In The End of the Revolution, the leading Chinese critic Wang Hui offers an alternative: an undivided narrative of modern Chinese history which makes better sense." - The Guardian

"Immensely valuable." - Choice

"Wang Hui [is] one of the strongest critics of contemporary inequality and the marketization of society and politics in China. [This] nuanced and highly theorized investigation into the relationship between revolutionary traditions and the rise of neoliberal capitalism ... has implications beyond the field of China studies." - Criticism

"The best book regarding Western misconceptions of contemporary China." - Artforum