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The End of the Revolution Wang Hui

The End of the Revolution By Wang Hui

The End of the Revolution by Wang Hui


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Summary

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, this title shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. This title examines the roots of China's social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the state of mass depoliticization.

The End of the Revolution Summary

The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui

This title presents a compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China's 'New Left'. Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the roots of China's social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the current state of mass depoliticization. Arguing that China's revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian past. From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China's future.

The End of the Revolution Reviews

Wang has become one of the first indigenous voices to critique China's 'economic miracle' fully and publicly, and to find it a deficient remedy for the failures of socialism. - New York Times The most radical, tough-minded, and sustained analysis of 1989 and all that has followed that I have read. The punchy prose style gives the book an urgent, even strident, edge that makes it a pleasure to read. - Tim Brook, University of Toronto An incisive, brilliant, always challenging analysis of China's intellectual landscape in the 1990s. - William Kirby, Harvard University

About Wang Hui

WANG HUI is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the former editor of Dushu, China's most influential literary journal. He participated in the Tiananmen protest of 1989 and is the author of China's New Order.

Additional information

GOR004230432
9781844673605
184467360X
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Verso Books
20100210
240
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