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China’s Transition

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With more than one billion people, China represents both an ocean of economic opportunity and a frustrating backwater of continuing brutal political repression. What are the prospects for democrati...
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  • 01 April 1999
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With more than one billion people, China represents both an ocean of economic opportunity and a frustrating backwater of continuing brutal political repression. What are the prospects for democratic evolution in a nation with one of the world's poorest human rights records? How have other nations responded to China since the recent, dramatic opening of its economic system-and how should they respond in the future? These are some of the most important questions confronting both the United States and the international community.

On democracy, human rights, and the move to integrate China into the international economy; on Mao Zedong's regime and the reform since his death; and on the Taiwan experiment and Hong Kong's reintegration with China, Nathan offers an accessible introduction to the intricate web of contemporary Chinese politics and China's changing place in the global system.

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Price: $35.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 01 April 1999
ISBN: 9780231110235
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
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Reading this excellent work by Andrew Nathan on the potential for a Chinese transition to democracy compels one to probe one's own unexamined presuppositions and unconscious cultural prejudices.
Andrew J. Nathan is professor of politics at Columbia University and is the author of numerous books, including China's Crisis (Columbia). He is a frequent contributor to the The New Republic.

1. China Bites Back
2. A History of Cruelty
3. Mao and His Court
4. Maoist Institutions and Post-Mao Reform
5. Chinese Democracy: The Lessons of Failure
6. The Democratic Vision
7. The Decision for Reform in Taiwan
8. Electing Taiwan's Legislature (written with with Helena V.S. Ho)
9. The Struggle for Hong Kong's Future
10. Is Chinese Culture Distinctive?
11. Cultural Requisites for Democracy in China (written with Tianjian Shi)
12. Left and Right in Deng's China (written with Tianjian Shi)
13. The Place of Values in Cross-Cultural Studies
14. The Chinese Volcano
15. The Constitutionalist Option
16. Human Rights and American China Policy