Discos and Democracy

by SCHELL, ORVILLE

• ISBN13: 9780385261876
• ISBN10: 038526187X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1989-05-22
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Back to the Future	p. 3
Don't Be Afraid of Democracy
A Dictionary Time Capsule	p. 9
Don't Be Afraid of Democracy	p. 15
The Liberal Reformers Speak Out	p. 23
The Great Debate on Political Reform and Democracy	p. 28
Bankruptcy Comes to China	p. 38
Socialist China's Big Board	p. 44
Building Friendship Through Golf and Guns	p. 55
The Limo-ization of Beijing	p. 64
Bodybuilding and Bikinis
A Vacuum	p. 71
Bodybuilding and Bikinis	p. 73
Cosmetic Surgery	p. 80
Fashion As Emblem	p. 85
Letting a Hundred Periodicals Bloom	p. 89
Mao, Freud, and Iacocca	p. 93
Socialism Is Good	p. 101
A Second Kind of Loyalty
Three Critics and the Party	p. 119
Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov	p. 121
Liu Binyan: A Second Kind of Loyalty	p. 140
Wang Ruowang: Political Iconoclast	p. 162
Communist Traditionalism	p. 177
A Unity of Opposites	p. 183
Wondering About the Thaw	p. 187
The Students March
Liang Qichao: China's First Democrat	p. 193
The Democracy Wall Movement	p. 201
The Student Demonstrations Begin	p. 211
Fang Lizhi Addresses the Students of Shanghai	p. 218
The Students March on Shanghai	p. 223
The Students March on Beijing	p. 231
The Aftermath	p. 241
Emulate Lei Feng
The New Political Climate	p. 247
The Party Reacts	p. 250
Fang Lizhi Is Purged	p. 258
Wang Ruowang Is Expelled from the Party	p. 266
Hu Yaobang Is Dismissed from Office	p. 269
The Campaign Against Wholesale Westernization	p. 276
The Dismissal of Liu Binyan	p. 282
Emulate Lei Feng	p. 286
Chinese Students Abroad Write a Letter Home	p. 295
Fang Lizhi's Speeches Are "Published"	p. 302
An Intellectual's View of the Party	p. 306
The Crackdown on Publishing	p. 314
Limiting the Hard-line Counter-attack	p. 324
Disco Dreams
The Economic Effects of the Crackdown	p. 337
Advertising Comes to the Great Hall of the People	p. 340
Disco Dreams	p. 349
Fang, Wang, and Liu Reappear	p. 357
The Circle Comes Around	p. 364
Mao and Kentucky Fried Chicken	p. 373
Notes on Translations and Sources	p. 383
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