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China's Twentieth Century
Wang Hui
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Description for China's Twentieth Century
Paperback. An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 367.
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates on China, and in China's Twentieth Century, the country's leading critic Wang Hui tackles it by looking to the past. Beginning with the birth of modern politics in the 1911 revolution, China's Twentieth Century tracks the flourishing of political life to the radical sixties and its decline through China's liberalization in the last decades of the twentieth century, to arrive at the present day. Examining the emergence of new class divisions between ethnic groups in the context of Tibet and Xinjiang, alongside the resurgence ... Read more
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates on China, and in China's Twentieth Century, the country's leading critic Wang Hui tackles it by looking to the past. Beginning with the birth of modern politics in the 1911 revolution, China's Twentieth Century tracks the flourishing of political life to the radical sixties and its decline through China's liberalization in the last decades of the twentieth century, to arrive at the present day. Examining the emergence of new class divisions between ethnic groups in the context of Tibet and Xinjiang, alongside the resurgence ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781689066
SKU
V9781781689066
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99-3
About Wang Hui
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 ... Read more
Reviews for China's Twentieth Century
One of China's leading historians and most interesting and influential public intellectuals. - Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Los Angeles Times A central figure among a group of writers and academics known collectively as the New Left. - New York Times Magazine (in praise of Wang Hui) Mobilizing lessons from a non-Western context to unpack the contested meanings of ... Read more