ATS2039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: May Fourth Movement, Work Unit, Collectivism
30 May 2018
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ATS2039 Lec 11 Notes
•Corruption
• Work unit system 单位
•Excessive commercialism
•Frustrated intellectuals
•Inflation and consequent problems
•Repression/censorship/media problems
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Why had these developed:
Deng Policy -->
High economic reform: leads to uncertainty
Low political reform: leads frustration
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Why were they seen as problems?
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Why has protesting seen as the best response to them?
Believed the government would help them
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Was the protest just practical…
Ideology of the 1989 student protests
•May 4th movement affected
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Personification of democracy ：德先生
•Collectivism, not individualism --> personal transformation? -- self
sacrifice (students were starving themselves for the government to
listen)
•'Romanticism' (emotional)
•'Creating subjectivity'
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•Protests didn't work
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