Realistic revolution : contesting Chinese history, culture, and politics after 1989
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 challen...
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| description | 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 ʼno 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/1464482023-03-11T20:04:22Z Realistic revolution : contesting Chinese history, culture, and politics after 1989 van Dongen, Els School of Humanities Humanities::History Asian Studies History 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 ʼno 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. Published version 2021-02-17T06:56:05Z 2021-02-17T06:56:05Z 2019 Book van Dongen, E. (2019). Realistic revolution : contesting Chinese history, culture, and politics after 1989. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108367783 978-1-10-836778-3 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146448 10.1017/9781108367783 2-s2.0-85085187612 en This material has been published in Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989 by Els van Dongen [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108367783]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Els van Dongen 2019. application/pdf Cambridge University Press |
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