Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era

By Merle Goldman

Book Overview

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman describes a group of highly placed intellectuals who, with the patronage of Deng Xiaoping's designated successors Hu Yaobang and then Zhao Ziyang, attempted to reshape both China's Marxist-Leninist ideology and its political system.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674830075
• ISBN13: 9780674830073
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The best book about the topic I know

This book contains a lot of information about not only the political events but especially about the discussions among the intellectuals who are active in democracy-related topics, about emerging groups and their opinions and actions with a focus on important persons and presents their history, statements, activities and conflicts with administration and government. It provides a very dense description and the quality is comparable with the book "China. A New History" which she published as a successor of John K. Fairbank. But this one her goes - of course - much more into detail.