DISCOS AND DEMOCRACY - Hardcover

Schell, Orville

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039456829X ISBN 13: 9780394568294

Publisher: Pantheon, 1988

Synopsis

An intriguing account of the reform movements and changes sweeping across China offers a close-up analysis of China's head-on collision with modern Western democracy, its implications and impact, and the basic contradictions underlying the reform movement

About this title

Synopsis:

In this chronicle of one tumultous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell tells the reader about the Chinese reform movement. It conveys the riptide of enthusiasm for democracy that swept first China's universities, then its intellectuals, and finally its cities. Schell catches the crisis of openness and repression which alternately engulfed the leaders of the People's Republic, as power struggles continued to rage within the Communist Party over the country's future. He takes us on a journey to the very interior of Chinese society - on a student demonstration, describing the purging of dissident intellectuals from the Party, discussing China's traditional notion of human rights, or into the unexpected new worlds of Chinese bodybuilding, advertising, disco, and cosmetic surgery.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 039456829X
• ISBN 13: 9780394568294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336