The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy, Andrew J. Nathan

China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy

Andrew J. Nathan

Nathan explored the roots of the Tiananmen tragedy in Deng Xiaoping's ten-year reform. How will cultural values and attitudes shape China's political development? What will be the impact of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the West? Drawing on ground-breaking empirical research, Nathan measures the expectations of individual Chinese and their attitudes toward government and democracy.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 21st, 1991
  • Pages: 242
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.91in - 5.84in - 0.70in - 0.78lb
  • EAN: 9780231072854
  • Categories: Asia - ChinaPolitical Ideologies - DemocracyInternational Relations - General

About the Author

Nathan, Andrew J.: - Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of China's New Rulers: The Secret Files (New York Review of Books, 2002) with Bruce Gilley; the co-editor of Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2003) with Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, and Kavita Philip; and the co-editor of How East Asians View Democracy (CUP 2010) with Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, and Doh Chull Shin.