Abandoned or Merely Lost in Translation?
(2008) In Inner Asia 10(1). p.113-130- Abstract
- The article’s findings show how in the Chinese reform-era of the 1980s and 90s, language control and strategic management of political discourse exercised by cadres in China's communist party propaganda apparatus helped forestall a development along Soviet lines ending with the sudden collapse of the socialist state. The findings indicate that the post-reform future—which in parts of China has, in fact, already arrived—is likely to see the contested disappearance of the traditional symbols and rhetoric of socialism “as we know it,” but that this transformation of discourse must be distinguished from the demise of socialism per se.
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- author
- Schoenhals, Michael LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Politics, reform, cadres, discourse, China
- in
- Inner Asia
- volume
- 10
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 113 - 130
- publisher
- Global Oriental Ltd.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:53649096377
- ISSN
- 2210-5018
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- An earlier version of this article appeared as an Asia Paper, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, August 2007.
- id
- c39849b2-c7b8-43ed-a793-cd9db2a4e69d (old id 702336)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 12:11:25
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