In Search of Chinese Democracy
Subtitle: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 19291949 (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780521771245
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; China - History - 20th Century; Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; China; Political Process - General; Democracy--China; Political Science / Government / International; Asia - China; 1912-1949; Human rights
First sentence: CIVIL OPPOSITION in the Nationalist period is best understood in a dual context: the repression of one-party rule and the imperatives of national salvation.