DISCOS AND DEMOCRACY: China in the Throes of Reform.

Schell, Orville.

ISBN 10: 039456829X / ISBN 13: 9780394568294

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1988

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A vivid narrative about China's emergence into the modern world, conveying with startling immediacy the riptide of enthusiasm for Democracy that first swept China's universities, then its intellectuals, and finally its cities. Whether carrying us along on a student demonstration; describing the purging of dissident intellectuals from the Party; discussing China's traditional notion of human rights; or allowing us glimpses into the new unexpected worlds of Chinese bodybuilding, advertising, disco, and cosmetic surgery, Schell's eye is sharp and his analysis penetrating. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFBS2. Seller Inventory # 2206

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Title: DISCOS AND DEMOCRACY: China in the Throes of...

Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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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

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.