Australian Left Review

Article Title

Brief Spring, Sudden Frost

Authors

Su Shaozhi

Abstract

The democratic movement in China has been crushed. With it has gone, a t least for the present, a whole outpouring of original thought in Chinese society. Much of it, ironically, came from within the Communist Party itself. Su Shaozhi, now in hiding, was one of China's leading reformist intellectuals. Here, in a previously unpublished paper exclusive to ALR, he lays out a manifesto for the movement.