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Using the Past to Serve the Present

Using the Past to Serve the Present

Jonathan Unger

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1993
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9780873327480
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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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