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In 1989, most observers believed that China's political reformprocess had been violently short-circuited, but few would now disputethat China is in a very important transition. Central to thistransition has been an extraordinary change in the formal intellectualconception of 'democracy.' In this book, Yijiang Dingpresents a multi-dimensional picture of China at the politicalcrossroads. Chinese Democracy looks at the significant change in thestate-society relationship in contemporary China in three interrelatedareas: intellectual, social, and cultural. Drawing heavily on recentChinese scholarship, Ding shows that the emergent theory on the dualismof state and society is contemporaneous with a new cognitive andcultural appreciation of the people's independence from stateauthority. Is China moving toward liberal democracy? Does Westernengagement with China contribute economically and politically to thisshift? These are the questions at the heart of the book. Which areespecially timely, given the recent reconstruction of political regimesworldwide.
Yijiang Ding is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of theInternational Relations Program at Okanagan University-College.
Figures and TablesAcknowledgements1 Introduction: Democracy in the Chinese Context2 Pre-Tiananmen Intellectual Rethinking of State and Society3 Post-Tiananmen Discussions4 Emerging Civil Society: Associations5 Reorganising Rural Society: Village Self-Government6 Cultural Distinction and Psychological Independence7 Conclusion: Theory and RealityNotesGlossary of Chinese TermsBibliography of English-language SourcesBibliography of Chinese SourcesIndex
