Throughout 2021, China’s online forums and comment sections teemed with discussion of a 1991 travelogue, by the political theorist Wang Huning, and its observations on American cultural decline.
, last year, a similar meaning-making unfolded in China. On January 12, 2021, Wang Wen, a columnist for, a nationalist news Web site based in Shanghai, noticed that an out-of-print book had shot up more than three thousand times its original price. On Kongfuzi, an online secondhand bookstore, used copies of “,” a 1991 travelogue by the political theorist Wang Huning, at one point cost twenty-nine hundred dollars.
In August, 1988, under the pall of the Cold War, Wang, then a professor of international politics at Fudan University, was invited by the American Political Science Association for a six-month academic visit. He toured dozens of cities and enterprises, from Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill delivered his fabled Iron Curtain speech, to the Coca-Cola headquarters, in Atlanta. He observed the Presidential race between George H. W.
Wang looked askance at American democracy, regarding its promise of popular representation as elusive, if not illusory. Choices for President were scant, government agencies hoarded public power, and well-funded interest groups could easily “determine the fate of another group.
Of the numerous Western writers referenced in his book, Wang seemed to identify most with the conservative philosopher Allan Bloom. Drawing on the central thesis of Bloom’s best-selling jeremiad “,” Wang lampooned a “generation of youths ignorant of traditional Western values.” “There’s a sense of moral panic that runs through the book,” Matt Johnson, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution who has written extensively on Wang, told me.
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