Tiananmen redux : the hard truth about the expanded neoliberal world order / Johan Lagerkvist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lagerkvist, Johan, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989--Influence.

China.

Neoliberalism.

Capitalism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

363 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bern : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

"This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China's socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kind of dramatic transformation that has made China rich but unequal, open but hyper-nationalist, moralistic but immoral and unhappy. Through the lens of global history the book revisits the drama of Tiananmen and demonstrates how it unfolded, ended, and ultimately how that ending - in a consensus of forgetting - came to shape the world of the 21st century. It offers a theorization on the inclusion of China into global capitalism and argues that the planetary project of neoliberalism has been prolonged by China's market reforms. This has resulted in an ongoing convergence of economic and authoritarian political practices that transcend otherwise contrasting political systems. With China's growing global influence, the late leader Deng Xiaoping's statement that «development is a hard truth» increasingly conveys the logic of our contemporary world."--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I The Hard Truth about the Massacre in Beijing

Chapter 1 Background and Rise of the Movement 27

Chapter 2 Rifts, Escalation and Crackdown 75

Part II The Hard Truth of Silence and Market Momentum

Chapter 3 Global Amnesia and June Fourth 159

Chapter 4 The Silencing of Civil Society and Deng Xiaoping's Pivot to Capitalism 201

Part III Authoritarian Convergence and Moral Costs

Chapter 5 Capitalist Convergence and Rising Inequality 263

Chapter 6 The Global Expansion of Authoritarianism and Democracy Under Threat 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index.

ISBN:

3034320051

9783034320054

OCLC:

956623008

Publisher Number:

99967903036