Ideologies of the Democratic Movement in ChinaAfter Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, the Chinese people were promised a new political atmosphere. Deng made the promise of a free land with a modern economic state to gain public support. A series of economic reforms were implemented during Deng's reign. These reforms have had a major impact on both the Chinese economy and society. Although it has been argued that Deng led a totalitarian regime, historians tend to overlook the idea that Chinese people have different ideologies and morals than Westerners. Chinese intellectuals who looked to the West as a model of democracy absorbed themselves in Western culture and believed that everything China stood for was "backward." This view of Chinese society forced people to harbor resentment against Deng, which led to uprisings and democracy movements. Deng simply wanted to create a better economy where the Chinese people could live according to Chinese values, but society did not see it that way as an influx of Western attitudes and beliefs had been ingrained in their minds. Deng knew that China's problems came from within the political system and attempted to solve them, but when he realized that these problems could not be solved, he resorted to a regime that was more authoritarian than democratic. society found itself facing a completely new relationship with the state. As intellectuals became more independent, their perception of the state changed. Before the Deng era, only bureaucratic corruption was questioned, while the actual government system was never questioned. However, following the Maoist regime, intellectuals launched their attacks on… middle of paper… eUniversity, 2000.Lipset, SM “University Students and Politics in Underdeveloped Countries.” In Intellectuals and tradition, ed. SM lipstick. New York: Humanities Press, 1973. Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, 3rd edition, New York: The Free Press, 1999. Nathan, Andrew. China crisis: reform dilemmas and prospects for democracy. New York: Columbia University, 1990. Schell, O. “The Democracy Wall Movement,” in The China Reader: The ReformEra, eds. Orville Schell and David Shambaugh, New York: Bondage Books, 1999. Yijiang Ding. Chinese democracy after Tiananmen. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001.Young, Ernest. “Imagining the Ancien Regime in the Deng Era.” In Protestant Popular Culture and Politics in Modern China, eds. Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Perry, Elizabeth, Oxford: Westview Press, 1994.