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Author:

Gewirtz, Julian B., 1989- author.

Title:

Never turn back : China and the forbidden history of the 1980s / Julian Gewirtz.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

vi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Historiography--China--20th century.
Political culture--China.
China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
China--History--1976-2002.
China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
China--Economic policy--1976-2000.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

0674241843
9780674241848

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1295245208

LCCN:

2022001879

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)