Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Chinese Democracy and Elite Thinking

  • Book
  • © 2011

Overview

Authors:
  1. Rey-ching Lu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 1-26

  3. Historical Analyses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Qing Dynasty in Crisis (1839–1911)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 29-35

    3. The Politics in the Republic of China

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 37-45

    4. Mao Zedong’s Rule (1949–1976)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 47-60

    5. The Reform Years (1978–The Current Time)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 61-70

  4. Interviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Interview Cases in Shanghai (I)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 73-90

    3. The Interview Cases in Shanghai (II)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 91-108

    4. The Interview Cases in Shanghai (III)

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 109-128

    5. Conclusion

      • Rey-ching Lu
      Pages 129-149

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 151-181
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author posits that the more that Chinese elite thinking on China's development and change reconciles the tension between Chinese nationalism and collectivist, family-like ethics on the one hand, and the western democratic ideals based on each self-seeking individual's subjectivity on the other hand, the greater the chance that China's political development will lead to a multiparty democracy. The author projects that within the next twenty years China will march on the path of democratization.

Reviews

"Rey-ching Lu demonstrates how it is theoretically as well as practically possible that concerns for collective goods and Confucian value of harmony will contribute to the evolution of liberal democracy in China, rather than hinder it. This book represents a higher moral commitment to democratization and a culturally more sympathetic approach to Chinese values than most democracy literature and China study literature in both English language and Chinese language." - Chih-yu Shih, National Chair Professor, National Taiwan University

About the author

REY-CHING LU Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. He received his PhD from Josef Korbel School if International Studies, University of Denver, and has been working on China Studies for more than ten years.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation