Aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Crisis for Mainland China

List of contents

Introduction -- Ideology -- Reactionary Modernism in China: Cultural Conservatism and Technical Economism in Communist Ideology and Policy Since June 1989 -- Was Mao Zedong a Revolutionary? -- Egalitarianism and Class Struggle in the Soviet Union and Mainland China -- Party and Politics -- “Peaceful Evolution”: Western Challenges and Peking’s Response -- Structural Political Reform in Mainland China: Before and After Tiananmen -- Role of the Military -- Party Authority and Military Power: Communist China's Continuing Crisis -- War in the Year 2000: Beijing's Perspective -- Social and Legal Reform -- Ideological Flux and Intellectuals in Mainland China Since 1978 -- Legal Reforms in the Aftermath of Tiananmen Square -- Economic Reform -- Macroeconomic Obstacles to Reform in China: The Role of Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- The Impact of Tiananmen on the Political Climate of Economic Reform -- Peking’s Economic Reform and Open-Door Policy After the Tienanmen Incident -- Planning and Politics in Mainland China Since the Massacre -- Mainland China’s Special Economic Zones in 1989: Continuity and Change -- Impact on the ROC and Hong Kong -- Tiananmen’s Tremors: The Economic, Political, and Strategic Impact of the Democracy Movement on Taiwan -- Tiananmen in Hong Kong -- Foreign Relations -- Peking’s Foreign Policy in the Shadows of Tienanmen: The Challenge of Legitimation -- Sino-American Relations in the Wake of the Tiananmen Incident -- U.S. Foreign Policy Dilemmas: The Case of Post-Tiananmen China

About the author

Bih-jaw Lin, Maria Hsia. Chang, George P. Chen

Summary

In this book, the authors analyze the wide-ranging effects of the 1989 Tiananmen crisis on the role of ideology in the People's Republic of China; the Party; the military; social and legal reform; economic reform; Taiwan and Hong Kong; and foreign relations.

Product details

• Authors: Bih-Jaw Lin, Lin Bih-jaw
• Assisted by: Maria Hsia Chang (Editor), George P. Chen (Editor), John F. Copper (Editor), Michael C. Davis (Editor), Bih-Jaw Lin (Editor), Barry Naughton (Editor), W. Gary Vause (Editor), Margaret Y. K. Woo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367305468
• ISBN: 978-0-367-30546-8
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to Asian American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General