First Ed, so stated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows a faint smudge at the bottom edge and a couple of faint stains at the bottom edge of the front pastedown endpaper; the binding shows very slight lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows a crease at the upper corner of the inside front flap; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, while no longer pistine, remains very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 384pp. Hardback with DJ.

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Title

Discos and Democracy.

Publisher

Random House: Pantheon Books, New York, NY

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

039456829X

ISBN 13

9780394568294

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Ed, so stated.

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Dust Jacket Included

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History: Asia

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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.

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