Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989

by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Elizabeth J. Perry

Chinese Political Culture Revisited * Imagining the Ancien Regime in the Deng Era * Acting Out Political Theater in Modern China * The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era * Reflections on 'Reflection on the Modern Chinese Student Movement' * Memory and The Chinese Search for a Livable Past * From Priest to Intellectuals and the State Under the CCP * Casting a 'Democracy' The Roles of Students, Workers, and Entrepreneurs * Gender and the Chinese Student Movement * Socialist Ethics and the Legal System * The Role of the Chinese and U.S. Media * What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 * History, Myth, and the Tales of Tiananmen

Genres: China, History

300 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 1991

About the author

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, is a modern Chinese social and cultural historian, with a strong interest in connecting China's past to its present and placing both into comparative and global perspective. He has taught and written about subjects ranging from gender to revolution, human rights to urban change.

His work has received funding from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation.

Reviews

[May Ling · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was one of the early collections of meaningful essays on China's socio political dilemmas.