The First Chinese Democracy
Subtitle: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 23, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780801856501
Subjects: International relations; Political structures: democracy; Politics and government; History & Theory - General; China - History - 20th Century; Relations; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; China; Taiwan; Asia - General; Political History; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; 1976-2002; Democracy
First sentence: When Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1840 that "the nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal," he might have been foretelling what Samuel P. Huntington recently described as the world's three waves of democratizing nations.