TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gewirtz,Julian B.
TI  - Never turn back: China and the forbidden history of the 1980s 
SN  - 9780674241848
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - China
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1976-2002
KW  - History
KW  - Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1976-2000
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction Forbidden History -- Reassessing History, Recasting Modernization -- Part I Ideology and Propaganda -- Spiritual Pollutions and Sugar-Coated Bullets -- The Scourge of Bourgeois Liberalization -- Part II The Economy -- Liberating the Productive Forces -- The Powers of the Market -- Part III Technology -- Responding to the New Technological Revolution -- A Matter of the Life and Death of the Nation -- Part IV Political Modernization -- Masters of the Country -- Explore without Fear -- Part V Before Tiananmen -- Two Rounds of Applause -- A Great Flood -- We Came Too Late -- Part VI Tiananmen and After -- Political Crackdown and Narrative Crisis -- Recasting Reform and Opening -- The Socialist Survivor in a Capitalist World -- Conclusion A New Era
N2  - "The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian Gewirtz shows how leadership expunged alternative visions of China's future and set the stage for the policing of history under Xi Jinping"--
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