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Never turn back : China and the forbidden history of the 1980s
Title
Never turn back : China and the forbidden history of the 1980s / Julian Gewirtz.
ISBN
9780674241848
0674241843
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
vi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian Gewirtz shows how leadership expunged alternative visions of China's future and set the stage for the policing of history under Xi Jinping"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction Forbidden History
Reassessing History, Recasting Modernization
Part I Ideology and Propaganda
Spiritual Pollutions and Sugar-Coated Bullets
The Scourge of Bourgeois Liberalization
Part II The Economy
Liberating the Productive Forces
The Powers of the Market
Part III Technology
Responding to the New Technological Revolution
A Matter of the Life and Death of the Nation
Part IV Political Modernization
Masters of the Country
Explore without Fear
Part V Before Tiananmen
Two Rounds of Applause
A Great Flood
We Came Too Late
Part VI Tiananmen and After
Political Crackdown and Narrative Crisis
Recasting Reform and Opening
The Socialist Survivor in a Capitalist World
Conclusion A New Era.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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