Democracy is a good thing essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China /

Main Author: Yu, Keping.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
Series:The Thornton Center Chinese thinkers series
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10338436
Table of Contents:
  • Democracy is a good thing
  • The study of political science and public administration in China : an overview
  • The seventeenth Party Congress and the agenda for China's political reforms
  • China's civil society : conceptual definitions, types, and background
  • The characteristics of Chinese civil society : administrative regulations and institutional environment
  • Civil society organizations : challenges and responses
  • Culture and modernity in the Chinese intellectual discourse : a historical perspective
  • The transformation of Chinese culture since the launching of reform : a historical perspective
  • China's economic modernization and sustainability
  • Harmony between man and nature : China's environmental practices and challenges
  • Preserving China's autonomy in the era of globalization
  • Federalism in modern China : concepts and experiments
  • A harmonious world and global governance : a Chinese perspective.