Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen

Author : Yijiang Ding
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842105
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen written by Yijiang Ding and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, most observers believed that China's political reform process had been violently short-circuited, but few would now dispute that China is in a very important transition. Central to this transition has been an extraordinary change in the formal intellectual conception of 'democracy.' In this book, Yijiang Ding presents a multi-dimensional picture of China at the political crossroads. Chinese Democracy looks at the significant change in the state-society relationship in contemporary China in three interrelated areas: intellectual, social, and cultural. Drawing heavily on recent Chinese scholarship, Ding shows that the emergent theory on the dualism of state and society is contemporaneous with a new cognitive and cultural appreciation of the people's independence from state authority. Is China moving toward liberal democracy? Does Western engagement with China contribute economically and politically to this shift? These are the questions at the heart of the book. Which are especially timely, given the recent reconstruction of political regimes worldwide.

Author : Yijiang Ding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen written by Yijiang Ding and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Y. S. CHENG
Publisher : City University of HK Press
ISBN 13 : 9629371812
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whither China's Democracy? Democratization in China Since the Tiananmen Incident written by Joseph Y. S. CHENG and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This weighty monograph offers a thoughtful assessment of one of globally raising China’s most profound political issues—democratization since the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. Not exactly a “looking back” retrospective nor a typical commemorative work, this book harbors a more forward prospecting approach with 13 substantive chapters yielding informed analysis and insightful interpretations of various key issues. The core subjects range from legal foundation of Chinese democracy, middle-class politics, Internet based-democratization debates and pro-democratic mobilizations, civic society activism, to the external and international media’s inputs, democracy and China’s ethnic minorities; and PRC-Vatican interface. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Author : Chen Jie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784711039
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement written by Chen Jie and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overseas Chinese democracy movement (OCDM) is one of the world’s longest-running and most difficult exile political campaigns. This unique book is a rare and comprehensive account of its trajectory since its beginnings in the early 1980s, examining its shifting operational environment and the diversification of its activities, as well as characterizing its distinctive features in comparison to other exile movements.

Author : Andrew Langley
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756541018
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiananmen Square written by Andrew Langley and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events and aftermath of the massacre by the Chinese army of protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Author : George Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Hands of Beijing written by George Black and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, the "Black Hands" are those people considered the principal threats to China's totalitarian regime. In the most vivid and revealing book yet on the Chinese democracy movement, the personal stories of three of the main leaders of the movement cast a glaring light on the nature of the Communist regime and the consequences of open protet against it.

Author : Michael S. Duke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron House written by Michael S. Duke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke (Chinese literature, U. of British Columbia) was travelling on a grant, gathering research on contemporary Chinese writers. Recognizing the importance of events around him, he set aside his research, and with camera, cassette recorder, and diary (later supplemented by published accounts) captured these critical events of Chinese history. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Peter Li
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412811996
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Politics in China written by Peter Li and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the pro-democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as the June 4th Incident, the Tiananmen Square protest included students, intellectuals, and workers demanding democratic reforms and social change. To break up the escalating protest armed soldiers stormed the square killing close to two hundred demonstrators and injuring thousands more. Culture and Politics in China explores the events, trends, and tendencies that led to the student demonstrations. This volume objectively presents a wide range of information permitting readers a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances that culminated on the events of June 4, 1989. Documents include eyewitness accounts by student leaders Chai Ling and Wu'er Kaixi, the speeches of Deng Xiaoping and Yang Shangkun justifying the use of force, analysis of the events by the Marxist theorist Su Shaozhi, the writings of young intellectuals Yan Jiaqi, Liu Xiaobo, and others. Selections include essays on the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the television documentary, the "Yellow River Elegy" which question the Chinese cultural tradition. Leading political scientists contribute to this volume. Lee presents an analysis of the role of Deng Xiaoping in the events at Tiananmen Square, and his views on the Chinese Communist party-state and the pro-democracy movement King Tsao, who was at the square, views the demonstrations as a form of civil disobedience and dissent against the party-state. He gives an eyewitness account and a contextual analysis of some of the events and underlying themes. Steven Mark, a journalist, presents an analysis of the various roles of both the Chinese and Western press, beginning with their role in shaping public opinion before the demonstrations and continuing as the media scrambled to cover China's biggest news story since the communist takeover in 1949. Those who are interested in present and future developments in the world's most populous nation will find this volume indispensable.

Author : Minzhu Han
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122952X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cries For Democracy written by Minzhu Han and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions--indeed, cries--of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989. The editors believe that the underlying motivations, emotions, and aspirations of the prodemocracy demonstrators can best be communicated to those outside China by translations that aim as much as possible to capture the original words, tones, and rhythms of the Chinese people. This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and the use of photographs combine to create a vivid and flowing narrative. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the bloody army takeover of Tiananmen Square and sweeping arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass antigovernment protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing. Highlighting the demands and goals of the protesters and the attitude of the students toward the Chinese Communist Party, the work movingly evokes the determination, idealism, courage, and flashes of humor that were the essence of this unforgettable spring.

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifteen Years After Tiananmen written by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: