vi, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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
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.
