Alternate Civilities
Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100813339316
- ISBN-139780813339313
- Goodreads268694
- LibraryThing5863645
- Library of Congress Control Number2001017938
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780813339313
- Open LibraryOL8024054M
Classifications
- LCCJQ1516.W45 2001
- LCCJQ1516 .W45 2001
Description
"Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system. This claim rests on the idea that "Confucian culture" provides an alternative to western civil values and that China lacks the democratic traditions and even the horizontal institutions of trust that could build a civil society. An opposed school of thought is far more optimistic about democracy, because it sees market economies of the kind China has begun to foster as pushing inexorably against authoritarian political control and reproducing western patterns of change."--BOOK JACKET. "Alternate Civilities argues for a different set of political possibilities. By comparing China with Taiwan's new and vibrant democracy, it shows how democracy can grow out of Chinese cultural roots and authoritarian institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
China's political future concerns policymakers around the world almost as much as it does 1.2 billion Chinese citizens.
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