Fang Lizhi urged young people to take their future into their own hands. Already feeling restless, the students held many prodemocracy rallies and demonstrations in China. The party leaders were divided over how to view these events. […]
Rising income disparities and growth of urban inflation were major concerns in China in 1980s. As socio-economic stresses grew stronger, the traditionalists launched an ideological counterattack against capitalism. […]
As China went through the reform era in the 1980s, with people free to express their individualities and the spread of the globalization fever across the country, a new set of social problems took birth. […]
George W. Bush decided to sway away from the traditional U.S. policy of “constructive engagement” with China. Instead, he opted for a more confrontational approach. […]
Taiwan’s insistence on being independent of China led to China conducting military exercises near Taiwan to send a message. Unfortunately, intervention by the U.S. caused distrust and tension between China and the U.S. […]
While China’s economic explosion in the 1990s led to the rekindling of Chinese national pride and patriotism, it also revived the darker side of Chinese nationalism, xenophobia. […]
Zhu Rongji was criticized for giving up a number of China’s traditional sovereign prerogatives in exchange for a WTO membership. However, his efforts helped China become a global economic powerhouse. […]
With growing wealth disparity, ad hoc local taxes, fees, and levies, the farmers’ plight kept worsening in China. In the spring of 1993, a farmer protest erupted, threatening the nation’s political stability. […]
Under Zhu Rongji, China embraced new regulations, giving enterprises more autonomy in making managerial decisions. It adopted the label of a ‘market’ economy, changing the perception that markets equal capitalism. […]
A number of left-wing conservatives tried to block the news of Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour. However, Deng almost single-handedly fought off the potent leftist challenge, and won. […]
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