Sentimental Republic. Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past, Hardback

How does emotion shape public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. Covering forty years (1978–2018) of bitter cultural wars, Tu analyzes how liberals, the left, cultural conservatives, and nationalists debated Mao’s revolutionary legacies.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Hang Tu
• Illustration(s): 8 color photos
• Number of pages: 315
• Collection: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 236 x 162 x 28
• Cover type: Hardback