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 …

The events of 1989, culminating in Tiananmen Square, highlighted the extent to which
democratic ideals had taken root in China. Baogang He traces and evaluates the political …

" Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also
for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins" Democracy Is a …

Hu seeks to explain China's failure to establish a democratic system. He demonstrates both
continuity and change in China's democratization process. Modern China regards power …

China's experiments with democracy in this century were few in number, short in duration,
and limited in their democratic characteristics. Democratic institutions malfunctioned in …

During the 1980s, as director of the Political Science Institute at the Chinese Academy of
Social Science-China's most prestigious think-tank-Yan Jiaqi proposed many of the political …

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A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in
moving China along the path to democracy before it is too late. With Xi Jinping potentially set …

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a
percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman …

CHINA'S LEADERS have held out the promise of some form of democracy to the people of
China for nearly a century. After China's last dynasty, the Qng, collapsed in 19n, Sun Yat-sen …