The Fifth Modernization

The Fifth Modernization
The Fifth Modernization
Traditional Chinese	第五個現代化
Simplified Chinese	第五个现代化
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	di4 wu3 {ge5 ge4} xian4 dai4 hua4
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	dai6 ng5 go3 jin6 doi6 faa3

"The Fifth Modernization" is an essay by human rights activist Wei Jingsheng, originally begun as a signed wall poster placed on the Democracy Wall in Beijing on December 5, 1978.^[1]

Summary[]

The poster called on the Communist Party of China to add democracy to the list of Four Modernizations which includes industry, agriculture, science and technology and national defense.^[2] It openly stated democracy as an additional modernization which needs to be taken if China truly wants to modernize itself. The five Modernizations would include:

References[]

^ Brook, Daniel. [2005] (2005). Modern revolution: social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China. University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-3193-2, ISBN 978-0-7618-3193-8.
^ Schell, Orville. Shambaugh, David L. [1999] (1999). The China reader: the reform era. Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-679-76387-2, ISBN 978-0-679-76387-1.

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[1] Brook, Daniel. [2005] (2005). Modern revolution: social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China. University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-3193-2, ISBN 978-0-7618-3193-8.

[2] Schell, Orville. Shambaugh, David L. [1999] (1999). The China reader: the reform era. Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-679-76387-2, ISBN 978-0-679-76387-1.

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The Fifth Modernization

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