The End of the Revolution
China and the Limits of Modernity
Published on 1. August 2011
272 pages
978-1-78168-376-7 (ISBN)
Description
Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the roots of China's social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the current state of mass depoliticization.
Arguing that China's revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian past.
From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China's future.
Arguing that China's revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian past.
From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China's future.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-376-7 (9781781683767)
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WANG HUI is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he currently lives. He studied at Yangzhou University, Nanjing University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at NYU and other universities in the US. In 1989, he participated in the Tiananmen Square protests and was subsequently sent to a poor inland province for compulsory "reeducation" as punishment for his participation. He developed a leftist critique of government policy and came to be one of the leading proponents of the Chinese New Left in the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term. Wang was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by Foreign Policy.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to the English Edition by Rebecca Karl
- Preface to the Chinese Edition
- Preface to the English Edition
- Historical Contexts
- 1. Depoliticized Politics: From East to West
- 2. The Year 1989 and the Historical Roots of Neoliberalism in China
- Modernity and Methodology
- 3. An Interview Concerning Modernity: A Conversation with Ke Kaijun
- 4. Rethinking The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
- 5. Scientific Worldview, Culture Debates, and the Reclassification of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century China
- Revolutionary Intellectuals
- 6. Son of Jinsha River: In Memory of Xiao Liangzhong
- 7. Dead Fire Rekindled: Lu Xun as Revolutionary Intellectual
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
