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in the workforce'
inadvertently reduced women's accessto education and participation
Li Xiaoiiang' a
As a result, some earlier gainswere lost and new problems appeared'
Studies Reprofessorof chinese alzhengzhou University and chair of the women's
searchCenter, analyzesthe Situationin 1988'
,,Report on work" of the Thirteenth Party congress clearly lays out the
The
reform of
theory oi the first stagesof socialism:so-calledreform, including
development
the
advance
to
political structures,is intendedfirst and foremost
in ecoof ,o"i"ty', productive forces.The congressinitiated improvements
of otrr
nomic efficiency in order to realize more quickly the transformation
It alsoattacked
countryfrom impoverishment,to relativecomfort,to prosperity'
world,
theoretical
the
of
dogmatism
the
the bureaucracyof the political world,
It
proposed
individual.
the egalitarianir- of th" economy,and the apathyof the
goals,
approachto reform and true economic competition.These
a rea*hstic
they
sought afte; but unrealized for many years' are well and good-but
the
squarely
face
to
impelled
thriten *o-en. In the spirit of realism,we are
ecoIn
actual
issueof biology and childbirth for women in socialproduction.
is inclined
no-i. .o*pJtition, the factsthat the quality of women as workers
the enterand
women
make
evidently
role
dual
a
have
to be low and that they
prisesthat employ them lesscompetitive'
"iron rice bowl"
Reform has also eliminatedlife tenure for cadresand the
policy and the
of industry.At preciselythe sametime that the limited tenure
and many of
contractsyrt".ow"r. being implemented,much of the protection
As a result'
by
one'
one
disappear
to
began
the benefitsfor women irrindustry
for men
promotions
the problemsof "samework differentpay" and unequal
and women havearisen'
only
In rgBBa seriesof women'sissuesbecameevenmofe pronounced.Not
and
women's
with
intertwined
are
interests
women, but the inany men whose
all
the
as
well
as
affected,
who are with women from morning to night, were
at
glimpse the
families concernedabout a daughteror a wife' Let us take a
issuesin the natural courseofth4t one year'
congresses
Firstquarter.In the processof democraticelectionsfor people's
female
few
Congress'
at every level and fo, th" SeventhNational People's
participation in
cadreswere elected, highlighting the problern of women's
government.
selfsecondquarter.with the simultaneousimplementationof enterDrise
social
women's
systems'
managementand discretionaryhiring and contract
salary,employment,and promotionswere all threatened,rendering
benefi"ts,
women workets'problemsmore acute'
for collegegraduatesand those_whofailed
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for women
to passthe college entranceexaminations,employmentproblems
future
,,rrf"".d anew. This directly endangeredyoung women intellectuals'
prospectsand develoPment.
Fourth q
pursuit in i
the increas
call for "eq
lengesin li
women en(
some wol]r
interpretth
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endureare
ual problen
hasneverb
to face real
actuallya n
with reforn
thus been t
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excessivelr
problems a
meansthat
unity with r
economicI
problems,i
Discussion
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of feudalisn
were mosth
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Today,h
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in the lives
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creatingam
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,2O
THE RETURN TO STABILITY AND TRADITION
sion. In the face of this "reversetide," the long-parroted,never tested,never
deeply researchedtheory of women's liberation apPearsexhausted.It is this
weaknessof conventionaltheorythat compelsus to facethe realityof Chinese
societyand the reality bf Chinese women, to investigateconscientiouslyall
women'sissues.
theseearth-shattering
zhanxian
kexue
3oo-31o;
4(re88):
lshehui
"^T,i"!ilTlJ:;fi1tff'[Ti:
T H E N t r WA U T H O R I T A R I A N I S M
Many intellectualsdebatedthe merits of the "new authoritarianism"during the latter
called
half of the rg8os.To its proponents it had some resemblancesto what earlier was
for
need
on
the
was
emphasis
main
but
its
"guided
democracy,"
"political tutelage"or
decade
siability asa precondition for economic growth. We seein the excerptsbelow, a
experipolitical
after Deng's opening to the outside world, the influence of Western
South
enceand philosophyand referencesto the Four Dragons Hong Kong,Taiwan,
was
Korea,and Singapore.Wu f iaxiang,a noted advocateof the new authoritarianism,
communist
the
chinese
of
Division
a researcherat the Investigationand Research
pagy,s central office at the time of the debate. Rong Jian, an important opponent of
of
the new authoritarianism,was a doctoral student in the philosophy department
Beijing'
in
People'sUniversity
..AN
THE NEWAUTHORITARIANISM,''
OUTLINEFORSTUDYING
WU IIAXIANG:
MAY1989
cannotbe without authority;authority
3.The developmentof human society
prwides stability.Similarly,it cannotbe without liberty;libertyprovidesvitality'
A stableand yet continuouslychangingsocietyis a modern societyin which
authorityand freedomare integrated.. ' .
the marketecon+. The fundamentalprogramof the new authoritarianismis
omy. Without a new authority, marketizationcannot be accomplished,and
without that, there can neverbe true democraticpolitics' ' ' '
dedicatedto forming the political power
5. The new authoritarianismis
.,"""rr"ry to resolvemaior socialproblemsand liberatesocietyfrom crisesduring the stageof society'stransformation.It has been said that China's most
p.oll.* today is that the country is not clear on what its critical prob"ri"ti"rl
poor iudgmenl In fact,china is
This is a cleversayingbut expresses
l"-s
"re.
alreadyclear on its problems;the reasonthere has not been an effectiveresolution is that a sufficientlylarge and strongpolitical power has not yet been
to solve
There aretwo aspectsto this political powerthat arenecessary
amassed.
..'
masses.
the
of
power
the
and
society'sproblems: the government'spower
redisthe
of
form
6. Th; new authoritarianismis most concernedabout the
tributior
has decl
7.TI
this equ
perhaps
(the old
no othe
8. Tl
ory of tl
political
this ther
autocra(
and potr
politics,
balance
authorit
9.cl
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democri
counrry,
goverrin
the Fed
tarianisr
ro. T
which st
or a set
n.T
Its scope
and plar
be prodr
explains
thority ir
of histor
of politi
tarian st
The I
stages;tJ
somePr
in mode
idea of r
authoritr
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