Democratizing Oriental Despotism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-6

3. The May Fourth Movement, the KMT and the CCP

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   Pages 7-35

4. Fang Lizhi and Yan Jiaqi

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   Pages 36-51

5. The “River Elegy” and the 4 June Tiananmen Massacre

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   Pages 52-72

6. The 28 February Uprising and the Opposition Movement

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7. Institutionalizing the Tangwai: The DPP

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   Pages 90-104

8. The National Affairs Conference

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9. Two Diverging Political Systems

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   Pages 139-155

10. Conclusion: Democratic Technology

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    Pages 156-158

11. Back Matter

    Pages 159-178

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China and Taiwan have similar political cultures. However, Chinese intellectual and political elite have failed to democratize the Middle Kingdom since the 4 May 1919 Movement: whilst their Taiwanese counterpart succeeded in making the island state fairly democratic in just over four decades since the 28 February 1947 Uprising. After an examination of the approaches they applied, the author finds that the former have pursued a culturalist road by trying to change the psycho-cultural make-up of the Chinese people: whilst the latter followed an institutionalist one in which they tried to win elections and to set up political organizations, such as parties.

• 1989
• China
• culture
• elections
• organization
• organizations
• state
• democracy

• University of Queensland, Australia

  C. L. Chiou

• National Science Council, Taiwan

  C. L. Chiou

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