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contesting Chinese history, culture, and politics after 1989
Revolution, according to Mao Zedong, cannot be compared to "writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery" because it cannot be "so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous." Revolution is an "act of violence." During the decade after the death of the Great Helmsman, Chinese intellectuals began to question not only the necessity of violent revolution but also the notion of radical change. The belief that there was "no making without breaking" (bupo buli) had not only permeated Chinese socialist modernity, they argued, but also China's famous twentieth-century political-cum-cultural movement, the May Fourth Movement (1917-21). In the political, historical and cultural discourse of the early 1990s, intellectuals said goodbye to the radicalism of twentieth-century China.
Goodbye radicalism : the early 1990s -- Neo-conservatism and doing things with isms -- Xiao Gongqin and the "Yan Fu Paradox" -- A tale of two revolutions -- Chen Lai and the "Max Weber dilemma" -- Of post-isms and May Fourth -- The double nature of realistic revolution -- Biographies of prominent intellectuals -- Glossary.
Els van Dongen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-269) and index.