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nation that is reshaping the world. We cover China with neither fear nor favor. I'm Kaiser Guo,

coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. If you've been listening to this show for a reasonably

long time, odds are that you've heard me and probably heard some of my guests on the program

lament the lack of attention given in Western media outlets to what might be called

mainstream intellectuals in China.

Not surprisingly, the fact that they don't garner much coverage means that knowledge of

and familiarity with them and their ideas, their

convictions, their attitudes is very much lacking in the reading public in the West.

If you are a regular reader of news about China, odds are, you know quite a bit about

official ideology and you have a pretty good exposure to the thought of dissident or

critical intellectuals. But unless you go looking for it, you're unlikely to be presented with the thinking of those

in between who are, I would assert, really the most important when it comes to getting a read

on overall attitudes in China, at least among educated elites.

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