Perhaps Deng is overthrown by HUA?
If possible, could the term "HUA" be explained?
Perhaps Deng is overthrown by HUA?
The other main Chinese leader Hua Gufaung!
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That said, I do remember commentators referring to Black Monday in 1987 as a possible turning point, not only economically but in terms of cultural attitudes. I'm not sure how long-term the effects of that were, but to some people anyway, it seemed to be a dividing line.
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For me it was. The optimism I'd felt at the start of the decade died then. Not to be reborn until post Desert Storm. Culturally, at least in the music and literature I was interested in the entire decade was good, better than the seemingly stagnate 1973-78. Politically and economically things never lived up to the promise of "Morning in America", or the "New Regan Man" as my Japanese friends put it. The cheering at the collapse of the USSR rang hollow for me and fatous pop phrases like ' The end of History' made it worse.
Given the recent cultural reflection of an Eighties revival, the challenge in this is to create a scenario in which the Eighties, with its characteristic tentative optimism, heightened Cold War tensions, and flashy consumerism, never truly ends on the night of December 31st, 1989.