Is China a Revolutionary Movement in the 19th and 20th Century?

The question in the whole book is why has China in the 19th and 20th centuries been marked so repeatedly by revolutionary movements. How do we narrate a past the China's past in the idiom of class struggle that is the revolutionary narrative mode of the 1960s? This can be seen as a false question on one level because why should you narrate all of China'sPast in the idiopath of the1960s, he says. The problem of the past becoming narrated in the present is part of the revolutionary problem of today and imagining of the future according to Liu Xiaobo.