Pressure Builds On Beijing  

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Fenby, Jonathan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 10 (Dec. 2009), page 48.
Topik: China; Hu Jintao; Tibet

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For China, 2008 has been a time of a remarkable string of round number anniversaries of momentous events. We have had the 90th anniversary of the start of the May Fourth movement, the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic, the 20th anniversary of the Beijing massacres and, give or take a month, the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping setting the world's most populous country on the path of market economics. Go back somewhat further and one could add the start of the First Opium War in 1839. Come much closer to 2009 and March brought the first anniversary of the anti-Chinese rising in Tibet. Anniversaries are not particularly interesting in themselves, even if they provide useful pegs for backward looking feature articles and reminiscences from those involved. What is worthy of attention is how they are dealt with when they involve political sensitivities. For the current Chinese regime, as for its imperial predecessors, the past is not another country. History remains an acutely political issue as shown by the trouble the current leaders have in getting to grips with the legacy of Mao; the economic driving force that powers the P.R.C. today is light years away from his teachings but his portrait continues to stare out over Tiananmen Square. For what seem to be purely tactical reasons, some of the next generation of politicians have started to hold him up as a teacher whose creed should be honored again, even if this runs counter to policies they put into practice.

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