Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to take responsibility for all under heaven, to argue the question What can we do with China? The Spring 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square climaxed a year of animated, despairing, idealistic worry - a year in which writers, journalists, scientists, professors and officials were able to gather in private to trade views on the corruption permeating Chinese society and the political repression exercised by the Communist ...
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Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to take responsibility for all under heaven, to argue the question What can we do with China? The Spring 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square climaxed a year of animated, despairing, idealistic worry - a year in which writers, journalists, scientists, professors and officials were able to gather in private to trade views on the corruption permeating Chinese society and the political repression exercised by the Communist Party. This pastime of chatting always turned to questions of responsibility: Should one resist - how? Follow an independent path? Flee the country?
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VG+ in NF jacket. NOTE: Former store discard stamp to ffep, NOT ex-lib., no other indications of prior ownership. Hardcover with purple paper over boards and grey quarter-cloth, in cream and purple jacket, small 8vo. xiv + 321pp. Index, footnotes throughout. VG+/NF. Apart from discard stamp, book is as new. Jacket has light rubbing and scuffing to rear panel only, primarily over binding and hinge edges. Jacket in Brodart.
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