Oh dear, another ‘new left’ is emerging (via Peking Duck):

This is a loose coalition of academics who challenge China’s market reforms with a simple message: China’s failed 20th century experiment with communism cannot be undone in the 21st century by embracing 19th century-style laissez-faire capitalism.
China is "caught between the two extremes of misguided socialism and crony capitalism, and suffering from the worst of both systems," says Wang Hui, a professor of literature at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. His passionate denunciations of China’s market reforms in Du Shu, a magazine he edits, are partly credited with energizing China’s New Left intellectuals. "We have to find an alternate way. This is the great mission of our generation."
Such grand visions notwithstanding, the New Left’s adherents don’t offer a coherent set of alternate policies. Some are hard-liners, who say they rue the violence of the Maoist years, but remain enchanted with the sociopolitical initiatives of that period, such as collectivization….

China’s people should be upset with crony capitalism and corruption - and there is plenty of room to criticize Jiang (provided you live outside of China) - but the self-proclaimed ‘new left’ gives me a slight chill.

"…remain … enchanted … with… collectivization?" Sorry, there was quite enough of that already. Try strengthening private property laws and allowing private land ownership. That and give people legally enforceable deeds and contracts. Oh, and why not make the leadership directly accountable to the governed while we’re at it.

Currently, when state officials requisition land, they are not ’stealing’ it - if only because the state owns all the land. It is already ‘collectivized.’ A little less collectivization, Mao and Marx please. Those ideas did enough damage last century.

If the ‘new left’ is searching for ideas, I recommend they start with De Soto.