Chinese Marxist philosophy

The Chinese translator of Darwin's The Origin of Species, Ma Junwu, was also the first one who introduced Marxism into China.

[1] This was before the formal dialectical materialism of the Chinese Communist Party, in which many independent radical intellectuals embraced Marxism.

In the late 1930s, Chairman Mao Zedong would begin to develop his own sinified version of Dialectical Materialism that was independent of the Soviet Philosophy.

In the 1980s the Dengist reforms led to a large-scale translation and influence of works of Western Marxism and Marxist Humanism.

Li Da (1890–1966) translated many of the early works of German social democracy and Soviet Marxism into Chinese.

Ai Siqi translated many of Mitin's works and helped introduce the New Philosophy to China.

[5] Mao later moved away from replicating the New Philosophy,[vague] and attempted to develop his own form of Marxism that heavily emphasized the centrality of On Contradiction and On Practice.

Mao saw the struggle between opposites as the key to dialectics, and this played a major role in the One Divides Into Two controversy of the 1960s.

[6] Wang Ruoshui was initially a major advocate of the Maoist One Divides into Two line during the Cultural Revolution.

In 1973, Foreign Languages Press published Three Major Struggles on China's Philosophical Front (1949–64).

[9] In the post-Mao era, there were major debates on the role that contradictions and alienation played within a Socialist society.

Deng Xiaoping personally intervened against the Marxist humanist trend in insisting that alienation was solely based on private property, and had no place in a socialist China.

[10]Despite Deng's condemnation, High Culture Fever continued to rise in China, with the work of Fredric Jameson being particularly popular.

Xi Jinping proposed the Chinese Dream as a slogan when he visited the National Museum of China.