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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791404603321

Autore

Ding Yijiang

Titolo

Chinese democracy after Tiananmen / / Yijiang Ding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver : , : UBC, , 2001

ISBN

1-283-11156-X

9786613111562

0-7748-5005-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contemporary Chinese studies

Disciplina

320.951

Soggetti

Democracy - China

Social change - China

China Social conditions

China Politics and government 1976-2002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Democracy in the Chinese Context -- Pre-Tiananmen Intellectual Rethinking of State and Society -- Post-Tiananmen Discussions -- Emerging Civil Society: Associations -- Reorganizing Rural Society: Village Self-Government -- Cultural Distinction and Psychological Independence -- Conclusion: Theory and Reality -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Bibliography of English-language Sources -- Bibliography of Chinese Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In 1989, most observers believed that political reform in China had been violently short-circuited, but few would now dispute that the country is in a very important transition. Central to the process has been an extraordinary change in the formal intellectual conception of "democracy." Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen explores this pivotal idea, presenting a multidimensional picture of contemporary China at the political crossroads." "Yijiang Ding looks at the significant change in the state-society relationship in three intertwined areas: the intellectual, the social, and the cultural. Drawing on very recent Chinese scholarship, Ding shows that the emergent theory of the dualism of state and society is contemporaneous with a new cognitive and cultural



appreciation of the people's independence from state authority." "Is China moving toward liberal democracy? Does Western engagement with China contribute economically and politically to this shift? The questions that lie at the heart of this book are especially timely in light of the recent reconstruction of political regimes worldwide."--Jacket