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Chinese Democracy and Elite Thinking
R Lu
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Description for Chinese Democracy and Elite Thinking
Paperback. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author posits that the more that Chinese elite thinking on China's development and change reconciles the tension between Chinese nationalism and collectivist, family-like ethics on the one hand, and the western democratic ideals based on each self-seeking individual's subjectivity on the other hand, the greater the chance that China's political development will lead to a multiparty democracy. The author projects that within the next twenty years China will march on the path of democratization.
Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author posits that the more that Chinese elite thinking on China's development and change reconciles the tension between Chinese nationalism and collectivist, family-like ethics on the one hand, and the western democratic ideals based on each self-seeking individual's subjectivity on the other hand, the greater the chance that China's political development will lead to a multiparty democracy. The author projects that within the next twenty years China will march on the path of democratization.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
Number of Pages
181
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349293339
SKU
V9781349293339
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99-15
About R Lu
REY-CHING LU Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. He received his PhD from Josef Korbel School if International Studies, University of Denver, and has been working on China Studies for more than ten years.
Reviews for Chinese Democracy and Elite Thinking
"Rey-ching Lu demonstrates how it is theoretically as well as practically possible that concerns for collective goods and Confucian value of harmony will contribute to the evolution of liberal democracy in China, rather than hinder it. This book represents a higher moral commitment to democratization and a culturally more sympathetic approach to Chinese values than most democracy literature and China ... Read more