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Author Yu, Keping.

Title Democracy is a good thing [electronic resource] : essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China / Yu Keping.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.

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Description xxxi, 219 p.
Series The Thornton Center Chinese thinkers series
Thornton Center Chinese thinkers series.
Note Translated from Chinese.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-205) and index.
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.
Summary "Presents selections of works of Yu Keping, a Chinese intellectual and figure in official think tanks, on politics and democracy that reveal the ongoing debates in Chinese political and intellectual circles on democratic reform and where China's political development is heading"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Democracy -- China.
China -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780815796947 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815796943 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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