China's Governance: Political Reform in a Turbulent Environment
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 119, 481-518
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000022918
Abstract
In 1989, after 40 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is faced with its worst crisis since the Cultural Revolution (1966–69) over the issue of reform of the Stalinist political system. Arguing that political reform was the necessary pre–condition for further change in China's economy, the reform wing of the CCP confronted conservatives who feared that the Party was losing its monopoly of Chinese politics. The result was that thousands of unarmed civilians in Central Beijing were killed by the army in the J early hours of 4 June 1989.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Understanding Some Children Have about the Party and CommunismChinese Law & Government, 1987
- China's Intellectuals and the StatePublished by Brill ,1987
- Literary Dissent in Communist ChinaPublished by Harvard University Press ,1967