In search of Chinese democracy : civil opposition in Nationist China, 1929-1949 / Edmund S.K. Fung.
Series: Cambridge modern China seriesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: xviii, 407 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0521771242
- 9780521771245
- Civil opposition in Nationist China, 1929-1949
- Democracy -- China
- Human rights -- China
- China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
- Kwo min tang
- Democratisering
- Intellectuelen
- Politieke activiteit
- Démocratie -- Chine -- 1900-1945
- Droits de l'homme -- Chine -- 1900-1945
- Opposition (science politique) -- Chine -- 1900-1945
- Chine -- 1912-1949 (République)
- Chine -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1912-1949
- 320.951/09/043 21
- JQ1516 .F86 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Fung examines the internal and external factors that shaped liberal thought in the 1930s and 1940s. He argues that the reasons the growth of democracy was retarded and then ended during this period were ultimately more political than cultural. He questions the assumptions that Chinese liberal intellectuals were averse to political engagement, that they had little real appreciation for the central principle of the liberal creed and little understanding of Western democratic thought, and that China lacked the intellectual foundations for democracy. He concludes that the Nationalist era contained the real germs of a reformist, liberal order that had been prevented from growing by party politics, a lack of regime leadership, and bad strategic decisions. The legacy of China's liberal thinkers during this understudied era, however, can be seen in the prodemocracy movement of the post-Mao Zedong period."--Jacket.
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