A failed Chinese modernity. (China in Transformation)

From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

As all former leninist dictatorships, rulers in Beijing also confront a crisis of legitimation.(1) Surface tranquillity in China hides moving tectonic forces that are reshaping China's national project. The most politically conscious Chinese already have dismissed the Leninist system with its claim to embody the interests of all Chinese in an anti-imperialist nationalism as a betrayal of the nation. The millions of democracy demonstrators in the spring of 1989 dubbed their movement "patriotic," in contrast to a regime which they found had wasted the people's hard-earned wealth on ...

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