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Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan

Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan

Weller, Robert Paul

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813339316
ISBN13: 9780813339313
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 13 2001
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist's answer to the argument that China's cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. Robert Weller draws on his knowledge of both China and Taiwan to show how such sweeping claims fail to take account of potential democratic stimuli among local-level associations such as business organizations, religious groups, environmental movements, and women's networks. These groups were pivotal in Taiwan's democratic transition, and they are thriving in the new free space that has opened up in China. They do not promise a clone of Western civil society, but they do show the possibility of an alternate civility.

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