Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The demands may be amorphous, but there can be no doubt about the passion, as evidenced by the willingness of ordinary people to obstruct tanks and of hunger strikers to court death. If anything, the absence of an ideology with specific long-range aims indicates just how powerful is the...
All but eclipsed by the rebellion was the Sino-Soviet summit, an event whose significance dropped to that of a sizable footnote. What was intended as an elaborate celebration of China's assured and independent standing and the Soviet Union's new civility in the international arena became incidental entertainment...
The assessment neatly fits the China of the past decade. Since the much harsher repression of the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976 and since Deng began his program of economic reform in 1979, the country has become for many of its inhabitants a more hospitable and prosperous place. Possibly the...
What most hurts the average Chinese is an inflation rate of around 30%. Expectations developed over years of growing personal income have suddenly been sharply set back. Prosperity, instead of being around the corner, looks out of reach. Such economic dips happen frequently in history and rarely cause revolutions. But...
Thus China's turmoil is not surprising in light of its inhabitants' mounting frustrations. Nonetheless, true revolutions, as opposed to coups or intermittent mass protests, are extremely rare and all but unheard of in situations in which the state wields so much force. Without a core of . ideologically inspired revolutionaries...