Download or read book Using the Past to Serve the Present written by Jonathan Unger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is also assessed, as governmental control of the media has decreased.