Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China : ... China (Contemporary China Papers)

by Jonathan Unger (Author)

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  1993

  $154.79

  An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is also assessed, as governmental control of the media has decreased.