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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gewirtz, Julian, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--China--20th century.

Historiography.

Political culture--China.

Political culture.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

China.

China--History--1976-2002.

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

China--Economic policy--1976-2000.

Economic policy.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Reassessing History, Recasting Modernization

pt. I IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA

2. Spiritual Pollutions and Sugar-Coated Bullets

3. The Scourge of Bourgeois Liberalization

pt. II THE ECONOMY

4. Liberating the Productive Forces

5. The Powers of the Market

pt. III TECHNOLOGY

6. Responding to the New Technological Revolution

7. A Matter of the Life and Death of the Nation

pt. IV POLITICAL MODERNIZATION

8. Masters of the Country

9. Explore without Fear

pt. V DEFORE TIANANMEN

10. Two Rounds of Applause

11. A Great Flood

12. We Came Too Late

pt. VI TIANANMEN AND AFTER

13. Political Crackdown and Narrative Crisis

14. Recasting Reform and Opening

15. The Socialist Survivor in a Capitalist World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674241848

0674241843

OCLC:

1295245208