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This chapter illustrates how similar criticisms have been levelled against the party concerning the truth behind the China’s Republican era. Although the CCP has been more tolerant of media, academic and public discussion of this era with a view to broadening its consensual nationalism, this has once again backfired. In particular, exponents of Republic fever has expressed a preference for the greater educational, democratic and diplomatic achievements of the Republic and dismissed the CCP’s economic reforms as simply making up for the time lost under the calamitous Mao regime.
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Weatherley, R., Zhang, Q. (2017). Consensual Nationalism: The Republican Era and the Rise of Republican Fever. In: History and Nationalist Legitimacy in Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47947-1_6
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