TY - BOOK ID - 8301579 TI - Tiananmen redux : the hard truth about the expanded neoliberal world order PY - 2016 SN - 9783034320054 3034320051 9783035108804 PB - Bern : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - Libéralisme économique KW - Chine KW - China KW - History KW - Influence. KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Tian'anmen-Massaker. KW - Neoliberalismus. KW - Kapitalismus. KW - 1989 KW - China. KW - Politics and government KW - Community organization KW - Internal politics KW - Economic order KW - Influence KW - China - History - Tianenmen Square Incident, 1989 - Influence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8301579 AB - This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China?s socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kind of dramatic transformation that has made China rich but unequal, open but hyper-nationalist, moralistic but immoral and unhappy. Through the lens of global history the book revisits the drama of Tiananmen and demonstrates how it unfolded, ended, and ultimately how that ending ? in a consensus of forgetting ? came to shape the world of the 21st century. It offers a theorization on the inclusion of China into global capitalism and argues that the planetary project of neoliberalism has been prolonged by China?s market reforms. This has resulted in an ongoing convergence of economic and authoritarian political practices that transcend otherwise contrasting political systems. With China?s growing global influence, the late leader Deng Xiaoping?s statement that ±development is a hard truth
increasingly conveys the logic of our contemporary world ER -