Chinese democracy after Tiananmen / / Yijiang Ding

• Autore: Ding Yijiang
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver : , : UBC, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 320.951
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - China; Social change - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Social conditions; China Politics and government 1976-2002
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese democracy after Tiananmen
• ISBN: 1-283-11156-X; 9786613111562; 0-7748-5005-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791404603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Chinese studies.