Discos and Democracy
China in the Throes of Reform
Published on 6. October 2010
408 pages
978-0-307-76714-1 (ISBN)
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In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
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05/1989
Alfred A. Knopf
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05/1988
Random House USA Inc
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Orville Schell was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of numerous books and articles on China, including Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century. The former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, he is presently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Back to the Future
- Part 1 - Don't Be Afraid of Democracy
- A Dictionary Time Capsule
- Don't Be Afraid of Democracy
- The Liberal Reformers Speak Out
- The Great Debate on Political Reform and Democracy
- Bankruptcy Comes to China
- Socialist China's Big Board
- Building Friendship Through Golf and Guns
- The Limo-ization of Beijing
- Part 2 - Bodybuilding and Bikinis
- A Vacuum
- Bodybuilding and Bikinis
- Cosmetic Surgery
- Fashion As Emblem
- Letting a Hundred Periodicals Bloom
- Mao, Freud, and lacocca
- Socialism Is Good
- Part 3 - A Second Kind of Loyalty
- Three Critics and the Party
- Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov
- Liu Binyan: A Second Kind of Loyalty
- Wang Ruowang: Political Iconoclast
- Communist Traditionalism
- A Unity of Opposites
- Wondering About the Thaw
- Part 4 - The Students March
- Liang Qichao: China's First Democrat
- The Democracy Wall Movement
- The Student Demonstrations Begin
- Fang Lizhi Addresses the Students of Shanghai
- The Students March on Shanghai
- The Students March on Beijing
- The Aftermath
- Part 5 - Emulate Lei Feng
- The New Political Climate
- The Party Reacts
- Fang Lizhi Is Purged
- Wang Ruowang Is Expelled from the Party
- Hu Yaobang Is Dismissed from Office
- The Campaign Against Wholesale Westernization
- The Dismissal of Liu Binyan
- Emulate Lei Feng
- Chinese Students Abroad Write a Letter Home
- Fang Lizhi's Speeches Are "Published"
- An Intellectual's View of the Party
- The Crackdown on Publishing
- Limiting the Hard-line Counter-attack
- Part 6 - Disco Dreams
- The Economic Effects of the Crackdown
- Advertising Comes to the Great Hall of the People
- Disco Dreams
- Fang, Wang, and Liu Reappear
- The Circle Comes Around
- Mao and Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Notes on Translations and Sources
- About the Author
