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9780393310658

Evening Chats in Beijing Probing China's Predicament

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393310658

  • ISBN10:

    0393310655

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-09-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to 'take responsibility for all under heaven, ' to argue the question 'What can we do with China?' In this 'utterly absorbing gem of a book' (Library Journal), Perry Link conveys the worries besetting China's most prominent writers, journalists, scientists, professors, and dissident officials. Link creates 'an invaluable opening onto China's best and brightest hearts and minds' (Kirkus Reviews), allowing the Chinese themselves to tell us why Beijing took to the streets in Spring 1989.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introductionp. 3
Social Worldp. 51
Corruptionp. 52
The Work-Unit Systemp. 61
Money First, Education Lastp. 70
Repressionp. 79
Livelihoodp. 90
Daily Lifep. 91
Financial Squeezep. 94
Housing Pinchp. 97
Moralep. 107
Public Incivilityp. 112
No Way Outp. 118
Historyp. 123
May Fourthp. 128
"Peasant Consciousness"p. 135
The Campaigns of the 1950sp. 139
The Revelations of Dai Qingp. 144
The Cultural Revolutionp. 149
The Reforms of the 1980sp. 155
The Course of Twentieth-Century Chinese Historyp. 159
Historical Parallelsp. 163
The Problem of Pessimismp. 167
Identity: Language and Ideologyp. 173
Living with the Official Languagep. 175
The Search for an Ideologyp. 191
Patriotismp. 201
Identity Within Groupsp. 213
Identity with the Statep. 214
Identity with Other Groupsp. 229
Individualismp. 235
Four Generationsp. 237
The Returned Studentp. 244
Responsibilityp. 249
The Worrying Mentalityp. 249
The Responsibility of Expression: Two Trapsp. 255
The Problem of "Knowledge for Use"p. 266
New Definitions of Responsibilityp. 273
Advancing Democracyp. 278
The Debate over New Authoritarianismp. 283
Afterwordp. 291
Indexp. 309
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