China's New Left looks back with nostalgia at Mao Zedong's egalitarian society where the wealth gap was narrow

In China's dazzling economic growth, there is a listlessness for many who feel left out and abandoned by the thrust of modernization.

There's a New Left emerging in China's intelligentsia that is stirring:

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