Verna Yu

In Search of Utopia: The Intellectual Transformation of Xu Liangying from Loyal Communist to Democracy Advocate from the 1930s to 2013

Abstract: This article examines the life of Xu Liangying (1920–2013) as a case study for understanding the transformation of his generation, members of which pursued a romantic “national salvation” goal through the Communist utopian vision but later became advocates of liberal de...