Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVX5KGQ9 | 2023 | 13 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Julian Gewirtz
Narrator: Rick Adamson
On a hike in January 1984, Deng Xiaoping was warned that his path was a steep and treacherous one. "Never turn back," the Chinese leader replied. That became a mantra as the government forged ahead with reforms in the face of heated contestation over the nation's future. But deliberation came to a sudden halt in spring 1989, with protests and purges, massacre and repression. Since then, Beijing has worked intensively to suppress the memory of this era of openness. Julian Gewirtz recovers the debates of the 1980s, tracing the Communist Party's diverse attitudes toward markets, state control, and sweeping technological change, as well as freewheeling public argument over political liberalization.