The Fifth Modernization
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| Author | Wei Jingsheng | ||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
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"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
[edit | edit source]The poster called on the Chinese Communist Party to add democracy to the list of the Four Modernizations, which already included industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense.[2] It openly stated democracy was an additional modernization that needed to be pursued if China truly wanted to modernize itself.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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