Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989 - Couverture rigide

Van Dongen, Els

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 110842130X ISBN 13 : 9781108421300

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Between 1989 and 1993, with the end of the Cold War, Tiananmen, and Deng Xiaoping's renewed reform, Chinese intellectuals said goodbye to radicalism. In newly-founded journals, interacting with those who had left mainland China around 1949 to revive Chinese culture from the margins, they now challenged the underlying creed of Chinese socialism and the May Fourth Movement that there was 'no making without breaking'. Realistic Revolution covers the major debates of this period on radicalism in history, culture, and politics from a transnational perspective, tracing intellectual exchanges as China repositioned itself in Asia and the world. In this realistic revolution, Chinese intellectuals paradoxically espoused conservatism in the service of future modernization. They also upheld rationalism and gradualism after Maoist utopia but concurrently rewrote history to re-establish morality. Finally, their self-identification as scholars was a response to rapid social change that nevertheless left their concern with China's fate unaltered.

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À propos de l'auteur

Els van Dongen is Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 110842130X
• ISBN 13: 9781108421300
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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