TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fung,Edmund S.K.
TI  - In search of Chinese democracy: civil opposition in Nationist China, 1929-1949 
T2  - Cambridge modern China series
SN  - 0521771242
AV  - JQ1516 .F86 2000
U1  - 320.951/09/043 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - China
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Kwo min tang
KW  - gtt
KW  - Democratisering
KW  - Intellectuelen
KW  - Politieke activiteit
KW  - Démocratie
KW  - Chine
KW  - 1900-1945
KW  - ram
KW  - Droits de l'homme
KW  - Opposition (science politique)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1912-1949
KW  - 1912-1949 (République)
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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
ER  -