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Abandoned or Merely Lost in Translation?

Schoenhals, Michael LU (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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Politics, reform, cadres, discourse, China
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Inner Asia
volume
10
issue
1
pages
113 - 130
publisher
Global Oriental Ltd.
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  • scopus:53649096377
ISSN
2210-5018
language
English
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yes
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An earlier version of this article appeared as an Asia Paper, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, August 2007.
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