The Opposition Path and China’s Future   Mo Zhixu (莫之许) is a
leading dissident intellectual based in Beijing. The original is
published in a recent issue of iSunAffair Weekly as The Death
and Life of China’s Dissent and Opposition Movements and in his
blog. We recently translated his Perspective on Southern Weekend
Incident: Root, Failure and Future.  The tragic events of 1989
have not only brought an end to officially guided political
reform, but also caused dissent and opposition among the people
to sink to an unprecedented low: if the lively activism of the
1980s hasn’t been forced into exile abroad, then it has been
imprisoned or scattered star-like to the four corners of the
country; in the years following the atrocity, activists have
lacked access to a platform for expression and a space for
activity. It would seem that dissent and opposition have already
been entirely eradicated from the visible, public sphere.
However, the 1989 democratic movement was the most robust and
largest-scale example of a wi