National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China / Edition 1

by Edward Friedman

Overview

This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same path as Russia and Yugoslavia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563244346
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1995
Series:	Studies on Contemporary China
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edward Friedman teaches about China, democratization and transitions from socialist systems, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is The Politics of Democratization (1994). His co-authored work Chinese Village, Socialist State (1991) was chosen by the Association of Asian Studies in 1993 to receive the Joseph Levenson Prize as the best book on modern China.Dr. Friedman speaks and reads Chinese and has traveled widely in China. His work appears regularly in both major scholarly journals and also in magazines and newspapers of informed opinion. He received an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Contending National Projects; Part 2 National Identity Crisis; Chapter 2 New Nationalist Identities in Post-Leninist Transformations; Chapter 3 Ethnic Identity and the Denationalization and Democratization of Leninist States; Chapter 4 A Failed Chinese Modernity; Chapter 5 China’s North-South Split and the Forces of Disintegration; Chapter 6 Reconstructing China’s National Identity; Part 3 After Socialist Anti-Imperialism; Chapter 7 Anti-Imperialism in Chinese Foreign Policy; Chapter 8 Democracy and Peace Versus Dictatorship and War; Chapter 9 Confucian Leninism and Patriarchal Authoritarianism; Chapter 10 Is China a Model of Reform Success?; Chapter 11 Was Mao Zedong a Revolutionary?; Part 4 Democratic Prospects; Chapter 12 Is Democracy a Universal Ethical Standard?; Chapter 13 Consolidating Democratic Breakthroughs in Leninist States; Chapter 14 Permanent Technological Revolution and China’s Tortuous Path to Democratizing Leninism; Chapter 15 Democracy and “Mao Fever”; Chapter 16 The Oppositional Decoding of China’s Leninist Media; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 17 Some Continuities Are Radical Ruptures;

Editorial Reviews

A study that "probes the origins, vicissitudes, and potential of alternative projects in an anti-imperialist Leninist regime facing a profound crisis of legitimation." Friedman (political science, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) examines the project of building a democratic national identity in China, a project which, he believes, is succeeding "despite a monopoly of the media and all national cultural institutions by militant antidemocrats." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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