{"id":154410,"date":"2026-07-10T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154410"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:30:06","slug":"how-the-new-left-won-the-battle-of-ideas-for-21st-century-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154410","title":{"rendered":"How the New Left won the battle of ideas for 21st-century China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWe are all used to Western assessments of Deng Xiaoping. You may even be convinced by them, as I was for a long time.<br \/>\nEzra Vogel, for example, wrote in Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China: \u201cIt was [Deng] who would finally realise the mission that others had tried for almost two centuries to achieve, of finding a path that would make China rich and powerful.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd, according to Orville Schell and John Delury in Wealth and Power: China\u2019s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, \u201cOnce in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3359813\/how-new-left-won-battle-ideas-21st-century-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWe are all used to Western assessments of Deng Xiaoping. You may even be convinced by them, as I was for a long time.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}