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La Chine au XX siecle. De 1949 a'aujourd'hui.
La Chine au XX siecle. De 1949 a aujourd'hui, ed. Marie-Claire Bergere, Lucien Bianco and Jurgen Domes (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. xv + 448. Pb. F150), evaluates the achievements of the Chinese Communist party from the triumphant declaration of the People's Republic of China on Tiananmen Square in October 1949 to the tragedy of June 1989. Four decades of history are scrutinized by a French and German team of twelve recognized sinologists. The tone is tough-minded. The dictatorial character of the regime and its gradual loss of legitimacy is one of the main axes around which the historical inquiry is articulated. The myth of a golden age from 1949 to 1957 is dispelled by Godement, …
