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The Chinese political system has not been hospitable to political dissidence. From the end of the Cultural Revolution fighting in 1968 up to 1976, the year of Mao''s death -- an eight year period marked by radical policy-making and political infighting -- only a single significant piece of dissident writing obtained wide circulation in China. This dissident manifesto, On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System, an angrily sardonic essay written in 1974 by a small group of young intellectuals in Canton, probed into the country''s political ailments and sought answers to the breakdown of due process of law. The two major authors of that essay subsequently emerged during the ''democracy movement'' of 1979-81 as nationally influential writers on questions of bureaucracy, Party dominance, and democratic reform. This book examines their writings, from the famous On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System through their arrests and release, down to the lengthy 1980 essay Mao Zedong and the

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Introduction, Part I. The Li Yizhe Manifesto, Part II. The Arrest and Political Vindication of Li Yizhe, Part III. The Evolving Thought of Wang Xizhe and Li Zhengtian, Notes, Bibliography, About the Editors

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
      Published 4 January 1985
      ISBN-13 9780873323420
      978-0873323420
      ISBN-10 0873323424
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      Law Constitutional and administrative law: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Chinese political system has not been hospitable to political dissidence. From the end of the Cultural Revolution fighting in 1968 up to 1976, the year of Mao''s death -- an eight year period marked by radical policy-making and political infighting -- only a single significant piece of dissident writing obtained wide circulation in China. This dissident manifesto, On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System, an angrily sardonic essay written in 1974 by a small group of young intellectuals in Canton, probed into the country''s political ailments and sought answers to the breakdown of due process of law. The two major authors of that essay subsequently emerged during the ''democracy movement'' of 1979-81 as nationally influential writers on questions of bureaucracy, Party dominance, and democratic reform. This book examines their writings, from the famous On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System through their arrests and release, down to the lengthy 1980 essay Mao Zedong and the

      Table of Contents
      Introduction, Part I. The Li Yizhe Manifesto, Part II. The Arrest and Political Vindication of Li Yizhe, Part III. The Evolving Thought of Wang Xizhe and Li Zhengtian, Notes, Bibliography, About the Editors

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