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Author: Orville Schell
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 1989-05-22
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
Author: Norman Abjorensen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-06-15
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1538120747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy, for all its imperfections and shortcomings. The question of just why some societies evolved into a democratic trajectory and others did not continues to engage the interest of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Much conjecture surrounds the rise of certain elements we now recognize if not as democratic, then proto-democratic, such as collective decision-making, constraints on the exercise of power and a degree of accountability of the ruler to the ruled. If democracy in the sense of “rule by the people” has two essential qualities – rule by the majority and the equal treatment of free citizens - then its origins, however feeble, are to be found in these early examples of government. Historical Dictionary of Democracy contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about democracy.
Author: Suisheng Zhao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317721632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have greatly increased its weight and importance in world affairs. Consequently the progress, or lack of progress, of China's transition to democracy has become a central concern of the international community. This timely collection brings together many well-known scholars to systematically explore China's current government and assess that transition toward democracy. The contributors seek to bridge the gap between normative theories of democracy and empirical studies of China's political development by providing a comprehensive overview of China's domestic history, economy, and public political ideologies. Overall the volume contends that Chinese culture and Confucianism are not the obstacles to democratic transition that some scholars have said they are, and that the success of market reforms has eroded authoritarian rule. This weakening does not guarantee a successful transition, however, and the contributors show that there are many reasons to be skeptical about the short-term prospects for democracy in China, including historical failures, the underdevelopment of civil society, political apathy, and competing social values. Though China's political culture is essentially neither anti-democratic not pro-democratic, it must still overcome many obstacles in order to achieve democracy.
Author: Giuseppe Di Palma
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-11-05
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0520072146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Giuseppe Di Palma's book could not be more timely, given the snowballing events that are gaining momentum in Eastern and Western Europe. . . . It represents a truly fresh look at the red-hot issue of transitions to democracy."—Joseph LaPalombara, Yale University
Author: Pacific Region Association for Higher Education. Conference
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The conference from which these proceedings is derived explored the issue of higher education in light of national political and social change, and the need for international competitiveness within the Pacific Region nations. The 17 papers are organized into seven topic sessions: (1) Policy Issues Influencing Higher Education in the Pacific Region, (2) Leadership Issues in Pacific Region Higher Education, (3) Educational Change in China, (4) Educational Changes in Japan, (5) Educational Technology in the Pacific Region, (6) Educational Change Related to Southeast Asia, and (7) Educational Changes in the Soviet Union. The keynote address and the presidential address are also included. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Second Thoughts on Higher Education and the Asia-Pacific Century" (Chung Won-shik); "The Role of Science Graduate Programs in the Pacific Region" (Akira Miyake); "The Impact of Civil Government Policies on International Higher Education in the Pacific Region" (Don Williams); "Multicultural/International Policy and Higher Education: A Canadian Case Study" (David Whittaker); "Educating Leadership for the Pacific Century" (Philip J. Bossert); "Leadership in Pacific Region Higher Education: The Problem of Internationalization" (Brent W. Poppenhagen); "Educating Managers for the Multicultural Workforce" (Jean Renshaw); "The Failure of Education Reform in China and the Student Movement as Academic Revolution" (Richard Hartnett); "The Task of Modernizing China: Necessary Changes in Her Educational Ideology" (Harmut Schweitzer); "Adult Higher Education in China: What Role Should Community Colleges Play?" (Yiping Wan); "The Rinkyoshin and Higher Education: Some Tentative Thoughts" (Edward R. Beauchamp); "Will One Have to be Trained 'Nationally' First in Order to be Educated 'Internationally'?" (Akira Tachikawa); "Promises of, Barriers to, and Administrative Strategies for, the Use of Educational Technology in Global and International Education" (Nancy M. Borton); "Computer Communications for International Education: The Future of Teaching in the Planetary Classroom" (Andrew Feenberg); "Progress of Hmong Students in Wisconsin Schools: Implications for Teacher Education" (J. Gordon Nelson); "Management Training Abroad: Do Developing Countries Get Their Money's Worth?" (Jamie Wallin); "Changing Higher Education in Siberia: Soviet Pacific Hopes" (Dale Heckman). (GLR)
Author: Edward Friedman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1315286831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same path as Russia and Yugoslavia.
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000-05-08
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1400823552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian leaders are merely trying to rationalize human-rights violations and authoritarian rule. In this book--written as a dialogue between an American democrat named Demo and three East Asian critics--Daniel A. Bell attempts to chart a middle ground between the extremes of the international debate on human rights and democracy. Bell criticizes the use of "Asian values" to justify oppression, but also draws on East Asian cultural traditions and contributions by contemporary intellectuals in East Asia to identify some powerful challenges to Western-style liberal democracy. In the first part of the book, Bell makes use of colorful stories and examples to show that there is a need to take into account East Asian perspectives on human rights and democracy. The second part--a fictitious dialogue between Demo and Asian senior statesman Lee Kuan Yew--examines the pros and cons of implementing Western-style democracy in Singapore. The third part of the book is an argument for an as-yet-unrealized Confucian political institution that justifiably differs from Western-style liberal democracy. This is a thought-provoking defense of distinctively East Asian challenges to Western-style liberal democracy that will stimulate interest and debate among students of political theory, Asian studies, and international human rights.
Author: John King Fairbank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-04-30
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780674018280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Author: Lawrence R. Sullivan
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007-05-23
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 0810864436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seized power in October 1949 China was one of the poorest nations in the world. In fact, it was so weak it had been conquered by Japan, a country one-tenth its size, a decade earlier. Now, more than fifty years later, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is an emerging economic, political, and military superpower with the world's fastest growing economy and largest population (1.3 billion in 2005). A member of the United Nations Security Council since the early 1970s and a nuclear power, China wields enormous influence in the world community. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China contains more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual topics spanning China's political, economic, and social system along with short biographies on important figures_from politicians to writers and movie directors_who have shaped Chinese history during the period of Communist rule from 1949 to 2006. Supplementing the entries are a chronology, an introduction, charts outlining the structure of the Chinese government, and a bibliography of works in English, making this a superb resource for college and high school students needing a quick reference on contemporary China.
Author: Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0429963378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative and widely praised volume uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen Square as the foundation for rethinking the cultural dimensions of Chinese politics. Now in a revised and expanded second edition, the book includes enhanced coverage of key issues, such as the political dimensions of popular culture (addressed in a new chapter on Chinese rock-and-roll by Andrew Jones) and the struggle for control of public discourse in the post-1989 era (discussed in a new chapter by Tony Saich). Two especially valuable additions to the second edition are art historian Tsao Tsing-yuan's eyewitness account of the making of the Goddess of Democracy, and an exposition of Chinese understandings of the term ?revolution? contributed by Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most controversial dissident intellectuals. The volume also includes an analysis (by noted social theorist and historical sociologist Craig C. Calhoun) of the similarities and differences between the ?new? social movements of recent decades and the ?old? social movements of earlier eras.TEXT CONCLUSION: To facilitate classroom use, the volume has been reorganized into groups of interrelated essays. The editors introduce each section and offer a list of suggested readings that complement the material in that section.
