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Author : Ranbir Vohra
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025199384
Author : Gordon Thomas
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497663398
The story behind the struggle for democracy in China and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, still the subject of widespread government censorship efforts. The first complete book on the Tiananmen Square tragedy reveals how diplomats from the United States, Britain, and Europe knew exact details of the impending massacre of the students in Tiananmen. In a vivid narrative window into secret meetings in the Oval Office, CIA headquarters, and the private compound of China’s leaders, more than one hundred interviewees contribute to an untold story. Chaos Under Heaven reveals America and the West’s betrayal of the children of China, who, for a brief moment in history, brought democracy to their homeland. In this stunning book, Gordon Thomas takes readers inside the tragic drama of those fifty-five days when the young people of China, crying out for freedom, rebelled against the old men of the Long March. At stake were America’s and the world’s roles in the future of China. Once castigated by Karl Marx as a “carefully preserved mummy in a hermetically sealed coffin,” China has become the superpower of the Pacific. As the students’ demand for democracy escalated, the Western nations realized that their carefully cultivated ambitions for China were at risk. Their goal was to preserve the status quo.
Author : Ethan J. Leib,Baogang He
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215481669
This book investigates whether the theory of “deliberative democracy”--developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimization that deliberation can afford--has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory especially useful to guide Chinese practices and pockets of Chinese practice that can, in turn, educate the West on possibilities for innovative uses of deliberative democratic theory.
Author : Edmund S. K. Fung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521025818
Edmund Fung examines an important phase of development in China's long quest for democracy. The momentum for democracy, he contends, grew strongest between 1929 and 1949 through civil opposition to the one-party rule of the Guomindang. The Nationalist era contained the germs of a reformist, liberal order, the legacy of which can be seen in the pro-democracy movement of the post-Mao period. This book fills an important gap in the historical literature on Chinese intellectuals between May Fourth radicalism and the Chinese Communists' accession to power.
Author : Suzanne Ogden
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0873327233
Presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents.
Author : Suzanne Ogden,Kathleen Hartford,Nancy Sullivan,David Zweig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315489636
Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents. In their introductions to the material, the editors address the political economy of the democracy movement, the evolving concept of democracy during the movement, the movement's contribution to China becoming a civil society, and the changing view of the Chinese Communist Party by students, intellectuals, workers and others, as the crisis unfolded.
Author : Jiwei Ci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674238183
Four decades of reform fostered a democratic mentality in China. Now citizens are waiting for the government to catch up. Jiwei Ci argues that the tensions between a largely democratic society and an undemocratic political system will trigger a crisis of legitimacy, compelling the Communist Party to become agents of democratic change--or collapse.
Author : Suzanne Pepper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0742508773
This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of the transition from British to Chinese rule. The author carries her narrative forward through the lives of significant figures, capturing the personalities and issues central to understanding Hong Kong's political history. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, she places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.
Author : E. Leib,B. He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312376154
This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory useful to guide Chinese practices, and also Chinese practice that can educate the West.
Author : Baogang Guo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461633129
This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns of political legitimacy and its implication for Chinese political development in the near future. Based on an analysis of the new governing philosophy, the generation of political elite, and a new set of public policies, the book reaffirms the emergence of a new Chinese polity that infuses one-party rule with limited electoral and deliberative democracies. Unlike many scholars who perceive the contemporary Chinese history as a constant search for democracy, this book takes a very different approach. It asserts that the enduring question in political development in China today is no different from what was sought after throughout Chinese history, namely, the constant search for political legitimacy. Even though the quest for democracy is instrumental to that end, it may not ultimately lead to the embrace of a full-fledged liberal democracy. The new politics is not only a rationalization of the efficiency-based development, but also a major paradigm shift in China's developmental strategy.
Author : David J. Lorenzo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409177
Close attention to the writings of the founding fathers of the Republic of China on Taiwan shows that democracy is indeed compatible with Chinese culture. Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory. David J. Lorenzo’s comparative study allows the reader to understand the leaders’ democratic conceptions and highlights important contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses that are central to any discussion of Chinese culture and democratic theory. Lorenzo further considers the influence of their writings on political theorists, democracy advocates, and activists on mainland China. Students of political science and theory, democratization, and Chinese culture and history will benefit from the book's substantive discussions of democracy, and scholars and specialists will appreciate the larger arguments about the influence of these ideas and their transmission through time.
Author : J. Michael Cole,Szu-chien Hsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788692136
Author : B. He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230607316
This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization. It explains how three key factors - township, economy and kinship - shape village democracy and account for rural variations. It considers the extension of village to township elections, the idea of a mixed regime and its impact on political development in China.
Author : Edmund S. K. Fung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521771245
Why modern China has been unable to institutionalize democracy is a long-standing topic of debate and the ultimate subject of this book. The greatest momentum for democracy, Edmund Fung contends, emerged between 1929 and 1949 with civil opposition to the one-party rule of the Guomindang. This analysis of China's liberal intellectuals and political activists who pursued democracy in the 1930s and 1940s, fills a gap in the historical literature on the period between May Fourth Radicalism and the Chinese Communists' accession to power. Fung argues that the reasons the growth of democracy was thwarted during this period were ultimately more political than cultural. The Nationalist era contained the germs of a reformist, liberal order, which was prevented from growing by party politics, a lack of regime leadership, and bad strategic decisions. The legacy of China's liberal thinkers can be seen, however, in the pro-democracy movement of the post-Mao period.
Author : Chen Jie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784711030
The overseas Chinese democracy movement (OCDM) is one of the world’s longest-running and most difficult exile political campaigns. This unique book is a rare and comprehensive account of its trajectory since its beginnings in the early 1980s, examining its shifting operational environment and the diversification of its activities, as well as characterizing its distinctive features in comparison to other exile movements.
