Intellectuals at a Crossroads examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic intellectuals who serve specific interests, from government and business to working class movements; critical intellectuals who defy authority with continued social criticism; and "unattached" intellectuals who are fast being professionalized. Using a historical-comparative approach enhanced with demographic and rare interview data, the book bridges the traditional with the modern and the Chinese with the foreign by exploring how these intellectuals are adapting to their roles and influencing political, economic, and social change in the "new" China."--BOOK JACKET

郝志東，澳門大學社會科學及人文學院社會學系副教授。研究領域包括知識份子問題、兩岸問題、澳門社會問題、博彩業的發展問題、中國農村問題、社會運動、社會科學的責任等。作品見於美國、英國、加拿大、中國大陸、台灣、香港、澳門等地出版的專業期刊或書籍。還有一些討論大陸、台灣和澳門政治與社會問題的通俗性文章，常在報章、雜誌上發表。專著有Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Changing Politics of China's Knowledge Workers（英文專著，紐約州立大學出版社，2003）。譯著有林語堂的《中國人》（合譯，原著My Country and My People）（浙江人民出版社，1988；上海學林出版社，1994，2007；香港三聯書店，2002）。2008年還即將出版編著《兩岸鄉村治理比較》（合編）（社會科學文獻出版社）；論文集《政治民主與社會和諧》（《九鼎》雜誌出版社）。