Undergraduate class at Renmin University

This is my last year teaching this undergraduate course at Renmin University of China (as well as the postgraduate course). Next year I move to a new agreement until 1919, so I will teach an intensive course on ‘Contradiction’, with close attention to Mao Zedong’s writing for understanding China today. The primary contradiction (to gloss Mao), is between socialism and capitalism – which are necessarily connected in a dialectical fashion. As my last undergraduate class draws to a close, we cel...