Democratizing China and Taiwan: Cultural and Institutional Paradigms

dc.contributor.authorChiou, C. L.en_AU
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T07:10:16Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T07:10:16Z
dc.date.issued1993en_AU
dc.description.abstractMaoist militant revolution died with Mao on 9 September 1976. Deng Xioaping's political reform, in spite of the great expectations it raised by the 1979-89 modernization push, met an equally tragic death on 4 June 1989, when he sent in his tanks to crush the peaceful pro-democracy demonstration in Tiananmen Square. Before 3 June no one foresaw that the 1989 pro-democracy movement would end up more disastrously that its equally famous forerunner,m the May 4 Movement, exactly seventy years earlier in 1919. Of course, there are many differences between the two movements, but there are also many fundamental similarities. The most salient and remarkable similarity between the two historic events, which should cause the most soul-searching among the Chinese people. particularly the intellectuals, is the tragic, almost fatalistic, way the intellectuals' attempts at democratizing China met a tragic fate at the hands of the similar traditional Chinese authoritarian political despots. In terms of democratization, which was the principal modernization goal of the May 4 Movement, the Chinese reformist elites, both cultural and political, achieve very little in their seventy-year long and painful struggles. (First paragraph of Introduction).en_AU
dc.format.extent1 vol.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.citationWelch, I. (2011). The Flower Mountain murders: A "Missionary Case" data-base. Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National Universityen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn0731515471en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1037-1036en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/14763
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherDept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National Universityen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRegime change and regime maintenance in Asia and The Pacific. Discussion Paper No.11en_AU
dc.rights© Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 19993. Apart from any fair dealings for the purpose of study, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries may be made to the publisher.en_AU
dc.subjectdemocracyen_AU
dc.subjectChinaen_AU
dc.subjectTaiwanen_AU
dc.subjectChina -- Politics and government -- 1976-en_AU
dc.subjectTaiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-en_AU
dc.titleDemocratizing China and Taiwan: Cultural and Institutional Paradigmsen_AU
dc.typeWorking/Technical Paperen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage66en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationChiou, C. L., The Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5437951en_AU
local.type.statusPublished versionen_AU

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