Xu Jilin

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.
Movements in contemporary
Chinese political thought
Neoauthoritarianism
Debateable:
Wen Jiabao, Hu Yaobang, Hu Qili, Rong Yiren, Wang Zhengwei, Zhu Rongji and Zhou Xiaochuan
Liberalism
New Left
Socialism with
Chinese characteristics

Xu Jilin (born 1957; Chinese: 许纪霖; pinyin: Xú Jìlín) is a Chinese historian. He is a professor of history at East China Normal University,[1] and specializes in 20th century Chinese intellectual history.

Early life

Born in 1957 in Shanghai, Xu Jilin dropped out of school and became a librarian because of the Cultural Revolution. As time passed, he eventually decided to pursue further education after passing National Higher Education Entrance Examination. He studied policy at East China Normal University.[2]

Career

In 1982 Xu graduated with a Bachelor's degree. He became a university lecturer. From 1997 to 2003, Xu Jilin traveled to three universities as a visiting professor and visiting scholar: the Harvard–Yenching Institute,[3] the National University of Singapore, and the University of Tokyo. In 2003, he returned to the East China Normal University where he continued his career.[2]

Xu Jilin serves on the editorial board of the journal Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, published by Chinese University of Hong Kong.[4]

Views

Xu is a liberal who disavows what he terms the political extremes. He believes in "small government, big society",[4] and criticized the statist, conservative[5] intellectual current of the Chinese New Left.[6]

Selected works in English

  • Xu, Jilin (2000). "The Fate of an Enlightenment: Twenty Years in the Chinese Intellectual Sphere (1978–98)" (PDF). East Asian History (20). Translated by Barmé, Geremie R.; Davies, Gloria: 169–186.
  • ——— (2004). "What Future for Public Intellectuals?: The specialisation of knowledge, the commercialisation of culture and the emergence of post-modernism characterise China in the 1990s". China Perspectives (52). Translated by Black, Michael: 18–30.
  • ——— (2012). "Social Darwinism in modern China". Journal of Modern Chinese History. 6 (2): 182–197. doi:10.1080/17535654.2012.718605.
  • ——— (2018). Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique. Translated by Ownby, David. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108470759.

References

  1. ^ "许纪霖". East China Normal University (in Chinese). Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "许纪霖_学术_专栏作者_天益思想库". www.aisixiang.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  3. ^ "Xu Jilin". Harvard-Yenching Institute. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Xu Jilin 许纪霖". The China Story. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  5. ^ 許紀霖 (2011-01-01). "近十年來中國國家主義思潮之批判". 思想 (in Chinese (Taiwan)) (18). doi:10.29848/SX.201101.0004.
  6. ^ Davis, Edward L., ed. (2005). "Xu Jilin". Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 951–3. ISBN 9780415777162.