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Sowing the seeds of democracy in China : political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era / Merle Goldman.

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The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman describes a group of highly placed intellectuals who, with the patronage of Deng Xiaoping's designated su...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Goldman, Merle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
China > Politics and government > 1976-2002.
Democracy > China.
Democracy.
Politics and government
China.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface.
  • Major figures.
  • The democratic elite.
  • Hu Yaobang's intellectual network.
  • Political openness, literary repression.
  • The campaign against Bai Hua and other writers.
  • The revival and suppression of political discourse.
  • Radical revisions of ideology and political procedures.
  • Beyond the limits of discourse.
  • The campaign against bourgeois liberalization.
  • The return of the democratic elite.
  • The beginning of organized opposition.
  • The democratic elite and Tiananmen.
  • A new kind of intellectual activist.

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