CHINESE DEMOCRACY - Hardcover

Nathan, Andrew J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039451386X ISBN 13: 9780394513867

Publisher: Knopf, 1985

Synopsis

This examination of how the Chinese, who regard their current government as a "democracy," interpret that concept assesses the elements that have shaped the modern Chinese political sensibility and recounts the direct elections to the People's Congress held in 1979

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Everyone interested in contemporary China attempts, in some fashion or other, to form judgments about the pressures for--and limits to--change in the political system in China. Nathan's book is by far the best analysis I have seen of the subject. By viewing recent developments in historical perspective, he analyzes democracy in China with a combination of idealism and realism that is impressive."--A. Doak Barnett, Johns Hopkins University "Admirable. . . . [Nathan] synthesize our current knowledge of the Democracy Movement in China, and [relates] its tribulations to parallel initiatives eighty years ago at the close of China's last dynasty."--Jonathan Spence, Yale University

About the Author:

Andrew J. Nathan is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He specializes in Chinese politics, foreign policy, human rights and political culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 039451386X
• ISBN 13: 9780394513867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313