He-Man Xi Unmasked COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

He-Man Xi Unmasked COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY IAN MITCHELLA persuasive analysis of the new Marxist Nationalism of President Xi’s increasingly assertive and intolerant ChinaIn 1861, the great jurist and legal anthropologist, Sir Henry Maine, wrote in his classic study, Ancient Law: “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.” He was referring to the development from primitive patriarchal societies, in which nobody other than the decisio…