Slowness and dazzlingness of Chinese reform

Historian of the Chinese countryside and author of Origins of the Chinese RevolutionLucien Bianco draws up for La Vie des Idées a nuanced assessment of the major developments that China has experienced over the past few decades, evoking demaoization, the one-child policy, “ new socialist campaigns », and the elitist discourse of Chinese intellectuals.

Lucien Bianco is retired director of studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. He was director of the Center for Research and Documentation on Contemporary China and taught at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, at Princeton and at Stanford. He is the author of around ten works including:

– The origins of the Chinese revolutionParis, Gallimard, 1967 (4e expanded edition in 2007 of an essay entitled “ The Chinese Revolution: an interpretation “)

– Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century ChinaNew York, ME Sharpe, 2001, Levenson Prize awarded by the Association of Asian Studies.

– Jacqueries and Revolution in China XXe centuryParis, Éditions de La Martinière, 2005, Augustin-Thierry prize.

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