1Modernizing China
The predicament of reform
Television viewers all over the world watched the incredible drama of the 1989 student and worker uprising in Beijing, the intense ideological standoff between the people and the government at Tiananmen Square, and the horror of the June 4th military repression that — for the moment, at least —has stymied both the country's official reformation effort and its grassroots 'freedom and democracy' movement. Ironically, television had just peaked as a communications medium in China during the troubled 1980s and had become a symbol of the success of the national modernization. By the middle of the decade nearly every urban family had bought a television receiver, many had color models, and some owned more ...
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