Discos and democracy : China in the throes of reform / Orville Schell.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1988.

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Back to the Future -- Don't Be Afraid of Democracy -- A Dictionary Time Capsule -- Don't Be Afraid of Democracy -- The Liberal Reformers Speak Out -- The Great Debate on Political Reform and Democracy -- Bankruptcy Comes to China -- Socialist China's Big Board -- Building Friendship Through Golf and Guns -- The Limo-ization of Beijing -- Bodybuilding and Bikinis -- A Vacuum -- Bodybuilding and Bikinis -- Cosmetic Surgery -- Fashion As Emblem -- Letting a Hundred Periodicals Bloom -- Mao, Freud, and Iacocca -- Socialism Is Good -- A Second Kind of Loyalty -- Three Critics and the Party -- Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov -- Liu Binyan: A Second Kind of Loyalty -- Wang Ruowang: Political Iconoclast -- Communist Traditionalism -- A Unity of Opposites -- Wondering About the Thaw -- The Students March -- Liang Qichao: China's First Democrat -- The Democracy Wall Movement -- The Student Demonstrations Begin -- Fang Lizhi Addresses the Students of Shanghai -- The Students March on Shanghai -- The Students March on Beijing -- The Aftermath -- Emulate Lei Feng -- The New Political Climate -- The Party Reacts -- Fang Lizhi Is Purged -- Wang Ruowang Is Expelled from the Party -- Hu Yaobang Is Dismissed from Office -- The Campaign Against Wholesale Westernization -- The Dismissal of Liu Binyan -- Emulate Lei Feng -- Chinese Students Abroad Write a Letter Home -- Fang Lizhi's Speeches Are "Published" -- An Intellectual's View of the Party -- The Crackdown on Publishing -- Limiting the Hard-line Counter-attack -- Disco Dreams.