The dramatic events of the democracy movement and the subsequent government
crackdown in Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989 marked the most serious legitimacy …

by Yasheng Huang ccording to Henry Kissinger, when Mao Tse-tung was once asked about
his place in history, he lightly replied that he had only changed a few places around Beijing …

Abstract In his essay, Francis Fukuyama offers a vision of Chinese governance that I
contend is flawed in at least three important respects: the basic framework of his three pillars …

China's economic success under an authoritarian political system in the past 30 years has
raised a question about whether the China model will replace the Western model of …

China seems to be a paradox: on the one hand, it has a thriving capitalist economy; on the
other hand, the catalyst behind its phenomenal growth has been none other than the …

In its propaganda, the Chinese Communist Party does not deny the value of “democracy”,
but it insists that democracy in China can be only “socialist democracy with Chinese …

Using a model of" fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner
workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well …

The contemporary problems of democracy in East Asia and its ability to deal with future
challenges cannot be understood except in the context of a region whose largest player is a …

No question is more fundamental to a po liti cal regime's stability and survival than that of
popu lar legitimacy. In the eyes of its people, does the regime in power have a “right to rule” …

This article discusses China's current administrative reform in its historical context. By
relating the present to the past, some seemingly paradoxical questions become answerable …