Professor David Ownby, "Reading the China Dream in the Xi Jinping Era"

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Based on 10 years of reading, translating, and curating the works of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, Ownby explores how reform and opening changed intellectual life in China, creating a de facto pluralism in the early 21st century, and how intellectuals have fared under Xi Jinping, who has sought to replace pluralism with ideological discipline.

Professor David Ownby is in the History Department of the Université de Montréal and is currently a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His most recent work focuses on intellectual life in contemporary China and he is the founder of the Reading the China Dream website.