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Goldman, Merle Dorothy was born on March 12, 1931 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jacques A. and Rose (Breslaw) R.
( The West's leading authority on the role of intellectu...)
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.
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( In modern China, literature has been regarded as a veh...)
In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's. By singling out individual writers as egregious examples, party leaders, through a series of thought-control campaigns, have tried to mold intellectuals along orthodox doctrinal lines. But these same leaders, holding to the paradoxical conviction that personal initiative and creativity are necessary catalysts in the effort to construct a Communist state, have not wanted to stifle these qualities altogether. The result has been a pattern of permissiveness and pressure, as illustrated by the ill-fated "Hundred Flowers" movement and the subsequent return to a policy of harsh regimentation. In depicting the views, feelings, frustrations, and tragic fates of many individual intellectuals in the confrontation with an oppressive party bureaucracy, the author reveals, in an unprecedented way, the nature of the authoritarian society that has evolved in Communist China. Her study convincingly demonstrates that totalitarian rule has not guaranteed the subservience of the Chinese intelligentsia and, even more important, that the alienated, critical intellectual remains a significant and vital force.
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(John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and thi...)
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
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Goldman, Merle Dorothy was born on March 12, 1931 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jacques A. and Rose (Breslaw) R.
AB, Sarah Lawrence College, 1953; Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Lecturer, Radcliffe Seminars, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1970;
professor of history, Boston University, since 1972. Consultant Harvard University Press, Cambridge, since 1982. Executive Committee Fairbank Ctr.for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1981-1992.
Trustee Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1986-1994.
( The West's leading authority on the role of intellectu...)
(The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals...)
(John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and thi...)
( In modern China, literature has been regarded as a veh...)
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Member President Commission on Radio Asia, 1992. Public member United States Delegation to United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, 1993. Bd directors Human Rights Watch: Asia, New York City, 1988.
Lecturer Phi Beta Kappa, Washington, since 1992. Member American Council of the Learned Societies (joint committee on contemporary China of the social science research council 1976-1981), Association for Asian Studies (president Northeast Council 1985-1986), Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Marshall Goldman, June 14, 1953. Children: Ethan, Avra, Karla, Seth.