Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on the Spelling; Table of Figures; PART I. Introducing Cass; Chapter One. Introduction; Chapter Two. Locating CASS; Chapter Three. The Establishment of CASS and the Process of PRC State-Building; PART II. Pre-1989 Academic Struggle; Chapter Four. Initial Reform (1977-1982) -- Rehabilitations and Expectations; Chapter Five. Academic Democracy and Spiritual Pollution (1982-1985); Chapter Six. Division among Intellectuals (1985-1988) -- Socialist Modernization and the Reforms; PART III. From Critical to Guided Academic Dispute (1988-1998)
Summary
Sheds light on the link between China's educational reforms and the ideological control exerted by the Party-state. This book explores the dynamics of the ways in which the academic community has carved out and utilised the spaces between the academic and Party leadership and the free will of the individual
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-358) and index