{"product_id":"chinas-twentieth-century-revolution-retreat-and-the-road-to-equality-paperback","title":"China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWang Hui\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSaul Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in \u003ci\u003eChina's Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e the country's leading critic, Wang Hui, turns to the past for an answer. Beginning with the birth of modern politics in the 1911 revolution, Wang tracks the initial flourishing of political life, its blossoming in the radical sixties, and its decline in China's more recent liberalization, to arrive at the crossroads of the present day. Examining the emergence of new class divisions between ethnic groups in the context of Tibet and Xinjiang, alongside the resurgence of neoliberalism through the lens of the Chongqing Incident, Wang Hui argues for a revival of social democracy as the only just path for China's future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWang Hui\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he currently lives. He studied at Yangzhou University, Nanjing University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at NYU and other universities in the US. In 1989, he participated in the Tiananmen Square protests and was subsequently sent to a poor inland province for compulsory \"reeducation\" as punishment for his participation. He developed a leftist critique of government policy and came to be one of the leading proponents of the Chinese New Left in the 1990s, though Wang Hui did not choose this term. Wang was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChina's New Order\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Imagining Asia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChina's Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759204466976,"sku":"9781781689066","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aa8016342af2701d6276aeb5a55556e2.webp?v=1780145377","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/chinas-twentieth-century-revolution-retreat-and-the-road-to-equality-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}