China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent / Edition 1

by Merle Goldman

Overview

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao’s regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government. Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People’s Republic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674119710
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Series:	Interpretations of Asia Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Merle Goldman was Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Dissident Intellectuals and the Regime

The Liberal Intellectuals

Response of the Radical Intellectuals

The Party Rectification of 1964-1965

The Cultural Revolution

Ideological Divergence of the Shanghai Group

The Scientists and Deng Xiaoping

The Consequences of Advice and Dissent

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

A highly valuable book… Her book touches issues of general and even universal concern. It deserves to be read by a wide audience.

American Historical Review

As tightly organized, as clearly presented, and as carefully documented a history of the country’s slide into the Cultural Revolution as we are likely ever to read.

Wall Street Journal [Asian edition]

In her marvelously lucid, drily witty, and extremely insightful [book]…Prof. Merle Goldman guides us campaign by campaign through the murky waters of…Chinese history, carefully pointing out at every turn the ways in which the political and intellectual realms (separable in theory but not in practice in contemporary China) have been related to one another… A truly masterful treatment of a complex and important subject.

Boston Globe

Fascinating… Goldman does a superb job of unraveling the tangled skein of political intrigue to show how ostensibly academic discussions among writers, philosophers, and historians actually have been political debates on the question, Whither China? …Goldman’s book will undoubtedly find the wide audience it deserves as a first-class treatment of a complex and important subject.

New Republic

An engrossing and powerfully documented analysis of the difficulties and dangers that Chinese writers experienced when they attempted to challenge Communist party orthodoxies.

New York Review of Books

As tightly organized, as clearly presented and as carefully documented a history of the country's slide into the Cultural Revolution as we are likely ever to read.

Asian Wall Street Journal