Elections and Democracy in Greater China (Studies on Contemporary China)
Contributors: Larry Diamond (Editor); Ramon H. Myers (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 30, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780199244171
First sentence: In October 1952, while addressing the Seventh Congress of the Kuomintang (KMT), the party chairman and president of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, reminded his audience that "Sun Yat-sen's highest goal was to built a political system in which sovereignty resided with the people [zuchuan zaimin]."