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According to the author, secret societies were a great social force in China's modern history. After the formation of the PRC, no information was available on their activity for a long period of time. In the past few years, however, secret organizations have re-emerged in this country as if from no-where. The author, Chairman of the All-China Association of Studies of Secret Societies, examines secret organizations in modern China. (DÜI-Sen)

Hayhoe reviews 'Private Education in Modern China' by Peng Deng.

Series Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Context of Cultural Studies -- 1 Sociocultural Context of Cultural Studies in China -- 2 Academic and Intellectual Context of Cultural Studies in China -- 2 Topics and Paradigms of Cultural Studies -- 1 Paradigms of Mass Culture Studies -- 2 Ethnicity and Identity -- 3 Feminism and Gender Issues -- 4 Consumerism and the Body Issue -- 5 Media Studies in Modern China -- 6 Study of the Urban Space -- 3 Analysis of the System -- 1 Cultural Studies and the Reflection on Literary Theory -- 2 Cultural Studies: Between Institutionalization and Disciplinization -- 3 Teaching of Cultural Studies -- Appendix: Cultural Studies in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- Cultural Studies in Taiwan -- Cultural Studies in Hong Kong -- Bibliography -- Monographs -- Translated works -- Essays in Periodicals and Newspapers -- Dissertations

When Americans on the Left-and in the Center and on the Right, for that matter-turn their attention to the issue of protest in contemporary China, they most often think back to the traumatic upheavals of 1989, which began with inspiring student-led demonstrations in April and May and ended with the June massacres. What they sometimes forget, though, is that many of the Chinese who contributed to the struggle and who suffered most in that year of miracles and tragedies were not students. Some were young teachers, such as Liu Xiaobo, who is now world famous as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but who was then one of China's rising stars in the field of literary criticism. inspired by the bravery of student activists-as many journalists, schoolteachers, and professors were-he joined them at Tiananmen Square. Liu soon became one of the most impassioned voices within the movement calling for moderation; he strove to persuade the most militant students to avoid taking steps that would box the authorities into a corner and make it hard for any kind of compromise to be negotiated, even one that could be seen as a partial victory. In the end, Liu was among the last protesters to leave Tiananmen Square in the wee hours of June 4; as soldiers were firing on civilians nearby, he helped broker a deal that provided safe passage out of the plaza for many of the students who had remained there with him. He was later jailed for his alleged role as one of the inspirational "black hands" behind the movement, the first but not the last time he would end up a prisoner of conscience. Adapted from the source document.