Minjian : the rise of China's grassroots intellectuals / Sebastian Veg.
Minjian : the rise of China's grassroots intellectuals / Sebastian Veg.
Minjian : the rise of China's grassroots intellectuals / Sebastian Veg.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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G 2020/2389
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English
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ix, 352 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Grassroots intellectuals: theoretical and historical perspectives -- Wang Xiaobo and the silent majority: redefining the role of intellectuals after Tiananmen -- Minjian historians of the Mao era: commemorating, documenting, debating -- Investigating and transforming society from the margins: the ri...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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New York (State)
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[2019]
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"Veg argues that a new type of intellectual appeared in post-Tiananmen China. Breaking with the universalist, enlightenment paradigm of the 1980s, as well as with the older, traditional figure of the advising and dissenting literati, intellectuals who came of age in the 1990s no longer indulged as frequently in sweeping discourses about culture, th...
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Minjian : the rise of China's grassroots intellectuals / Sebastian Veg.
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Global Chinese culture
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2389
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74VKaPoa5D83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPoa5D83
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9780231191401 hardcover alkaline paper
0231191405 hardcover alkaline paper
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305.5520951
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991024314116202626
