China's Lost Decade: Cultural Politics and Poetics 1978-1990 in Place of History

by Gregory Lee

The period in China's recent history between the death of Mao and the debacle of 1989 can be seen as a long decade, but also historically as a "lost" decade. It is "lost" in the sense that the political engagement of intellectuals and makers of culture was erased by China's official history makers; it is also "lost" in that its memory has been abandoned even by many who lived through it; "lost" also in the embarrassed silence of those who prefer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983297002
• ISBN13: 9780983297000
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"