| Number 214 April 2026 |
The Twenty-First Century Review
The Sociological Legacy of Michael Burawoy
4
For Sociological Marxism—In Memory of Michael Burawoy and Erik O. Wright
Lin Le-feng
19
Public Sociology in an Era of Global Right-Wing Turn: Insights from Michael Burawoy’s Theory
Xu Yi
30
Revisiting Hegemonic Despotism in the Digital Labor Era
Zheng Guang-huai
44
Explaining China’s Development Model through the Lens of Labor Reproduction
Wang Ou
Research Articles
62
Central-Local Fiscal Relations and the Universalization of Primary Education in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China
Ding Xu-hui
80
Bringing Technology to the Countryside: The Practice and Dilemma of Rural Family Planning in Y County, Henan Province (1973–1980)
Zheng Xin-yue
97
“Old Revolutionaries” Confront “New Problems”?: “Anti-Work Team Incident” in Two Beijing Elite Middle Schools during the Early Cultural Revolution (Part II)
Yang Jun
View on the World
110
Video Surveillance, Governmentality, and the (Post-)Biopolitics of Contemporary Art
Lu Ming-jun
Scholar’s Reminiscences
122
The Song of Learning Endures amidst Storms: Tung-li Yuan and Modern Chinese Scholarship
Q. Edward Wang
Book Reviews
135
Discovering the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai: A Review on Sae-Chen Joseffin, Strategy in Action: The Shanghai Strike, Part I
Zhao Shuai
145
Shallow Understanding or Deep Interpretation? — A Review on Chung Yen-lin, Peng Zhen: Mao’s “Close Comrade-in-Arms” (1941–1966) (Part II)
Wang Hai-guang, Zhang Yu
159
Tripartite Interactions
161
From the Editor’s Desk








