1 Dennis Smith Zygmunt Bauman: Morality, Monsters, Metaphors and Marx. This is a partial reworking of comments that appeared in Chinese translation in The Beijing News Book Review [interview with Dong Luo, 14 th January 2017] Abstract and afterthought. Zygmunt Bauman was in equal measure a sociologist, philosophizer, moralist, and story-teller as well as being a charismatic writer and performer. He remade, combined and refined the visions of alienated exploitative capitalism and bureaucracy conjured, in different ways, on both sides of the Atlantic between the wars by the Frankfurt School and the Chicago School. He refashioned these visions for a post Cold War world in which the leading edge of abuse by the wealthy and powerful came in the form of cynical seduction (tempered with neglect of the weak) rather than aggressive destruction (tempered by worship of the strong). Confronted by these evils, Bauman urged us to be clear-sighted, self-aware and morally responsible. The Beijing News Dennis Smith was the Vice-President of European Sociological Association and now is emeritus professor of sociology at Loughborough University. His Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity (1999, Chinese version in 2007) has provided by far the most comprehensive, critical overview of Zygmunt Bauman. We asked him the following questions about Bauman: Question1. Bauman used to live under a communist regime in the 1960s, but had become one of the greatest sociologists in the capitalist West since the 1980s. How did such change shape his social thoughts?