China's Twentieth Century
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China's Twentieth Century

Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

China's Twentieth Century

Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality

About this book

What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and inChina's Twentieth Century the country's leading critic, Wang Hui, turns to the past for an answer. Beginning with the birth of modern politics in the 1911 revolution, Wang tracks the initial flourishing of political life, its blossoming in the radical sixties, and its decline in China's more recent liberalization, to arrive at the crossroads of the present day. Examining the emergence of new class divisions between ethnic groups in the context of Tibet and Xinjiang, alongside the resurgence of neoliberalism through the lens of the Chongqing Incident, Wang Hui argues for a revival of social democracy as the only just path for China's future.

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Information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781781689066
eBook ISBN
9781781689073

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Revolution and Negotiation (1911–13): “The Awakening of Asia” at the Beginning of China’s Twentieth Century
  8. 2. The Transformation of Culture and Politics: War, Revolution and the “War of Ideas” in the 1910s
  9. 3. From People’s War to the War of International Alliance (1949–53): The War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea from the Perspective of Twentieth-Century Chinese History
  10. 4. The Crisis of Representation and Post-Party Politics
  11. 5. Two Kinds of New Poor and Their Future: The Decline and Reconfiguration of Class Politics and the Politics of the New Poor
  12. 6. Three Concepts of Equality: The Decline of Representation
  13. 7. The Equality of all Things and Trans-Systemic Society
  14. Appendix: Contradiction, Systemic Crisis and Direction for Change
  15. Notes
  16. Index