Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China

Contributor(s): Unger, Jonathan (Author)

ISBN: 9780873327473

Publisher: Routledge

Hardcover

$235.00

Pub Date: August 31, 1993

Dewey: 951.0072

LCCN: 93015256

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Index

Target Age Group: 18 to 18

Physical Info: 0.75" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.27 lbs) 304 pages

BISAC Categories:

History | Historiography | Asia | China

Series: Contemporary China Papers

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: 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.

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