Zhang Yongle is Associate Professor at the Beijing University School of Law, and a rising member of China’s New Left. He shares many of the views of Jiang Shigong 强世功 (b. 1969), his better-known colleague at the same law school.[2] The text translated here, written in 2008, has nothing to do with Zhang’s academic work, but instead reflects changing attitudes among younger Chinese intellectuals concerning the value of Western ideas and the experience of studying abroad.