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China’s twentieth century : revolution, retreat, and the road to equality

By Wang Hui , Saul Thomas

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-78168-907-3, 1781689075, 978-1-78168-908-0, 1781689083, 1781689067, 978-1-78168-906-6, 978-1-78168-905-9
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
929 kB (951436 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.;

Description

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in China’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading critic, Wang Hui, turns to the past for an answer. Beginning with the birth of modern politics in the 1911 revolution, Wang tracks the initial flourishing of political life, its blossoming in the radical sixties, and its decline in China’s more recent liberalization, to arrive at the crossroads of the present day. Examining the emergence of new class divisions between ethnic groups in the context of Tibet and Xinjiang, alongside the resurgence of neoliberalism through the lens of the Chongqing Incident, Wang Hui argues for a revival of social democracy as the only just path for China’s future

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