From Mao to Deng and Zhang and the present time, historical experiences of contemporary China can be summarized as contradictions between modernity and anti-modernity. These contradictions involve two processes of de-linking from and re-lingking to the capitalist world economy. But during the re-lingking process the specter of Mao Zedong haunts us and poses us difficult problems. “General line for the transitional periods” during the First Five Year Plan and following “General line for a socialist construction” during the Great Leap Forward appeared to be a distorted phenomenon that had been formed through forced self-reliance under the double de-linking circumstances. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution tried to solve the contradictions with ‘violent’ methods mobilizing mass initiatives in a way of“politics in command.” GPCR, however, failed as soon as the party became the target rather than a leader of mass movement, and was degenerated into campaigns against intellectuals with the statism and developmentalism intact. Historical experiences of Chinese socialism gave some influences on Korean intellectuals as detours of debates on the nature of capitalism and socialism during the 1980s.China’s experiences could remain one of the important references that were used to interpret the internal history of socialism crtically and understand the history of capitalism from a non-eurocentric viewpoints. After China’s economic reforms, China’s new experiences give an intellectual stimulus to understand the world history from a wider view than before. After GPCB China has been entering a new “re-linking” stage. The essence of ideological legitimation for the re-linking is development and “catching-ups” towards new nationalism that envies the accomplishments of the USA.