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The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong :

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The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong :

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Sharp Power and Its Discontents /

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Andreas Fulda.

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New York :

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Routledge,

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2020.

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©2020

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1 online resource (265 pages)

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China Policy Ser.

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Surveillance and the KMT's secret police

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; China as a longitudinal study; Normativists; Positivists; China practitioners; Overcoming "mountaintopism"; Research approach; Notes; 2. Mainland China's incomplete modernisation; Limits of modernisation theory; Modernisation without democracy; Modernisation without social equality; Modernisation without transparency and accountability; Corruption of an entire people?; Notes; 3. Dissecting the dynamics of the struggle for democracy

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Dearth of studies on China's democratisationBridging theory and practice; Uncertainties, ambivalences and paradoxes of political activism; Generalisable insights from democratisation studies; Advantage of combining etic and emic perspectives; Reform within or outside the system?; Why ascribed categories matter; Similarities between emic and etic discourses; Are ascribed categories reversible?; Ideal-type reform approaches as analytical vignettes; How theories of change can help capture "horizons of expectations"; Notes; 4. Theories of and for political change

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Episode 2: The failed attempt to establish the China Democracy Party in 1998Episode 3: Charter 08: the "grand strategy" of mainland China's democracy movement?; Episode 4: China's New Citizen movement: a Freirean approach to liberation?; Reflections on the four episodes from a longitudinal perspective; Notes; 7. The rise and demise of the KMT party-state in Taiwan; Taiwan's troubled return under Republic of China sovereignty; KMT rule in Taiwan after 1945: a neocolonial regime?; Language and cultural policies; Land reform; Similarities between the KMT and CCP; Corporatism and co-optation

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The ten lost years of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76Bottom-up impulses for "reform and opening up" in the early 1980s; Protecting the party-state's authority: the united front method; Rule by bribery; Rule by fear; Stability preservation at all costs?; Endemic and systemic nature of human rights abuses; How vulnerable is mainland China's party-state?; Notes; 6. The trials and tribulations of mainland China's democracy movement; Episode 1: Mainland China's nation-wide anti-corruption and prodemocracy movement of 1989

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The TOPC by Gene Sharp, Saul Alinsky and Paulo FreireShared convictions of Sharp, Alinsky and Freire; Gene Sharp's advocacy of non-violent struggle: an antiestablishment approach; Saul Alinsky's principle and practice of realistic radicalism: a trojan horse approach; Paulo Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed: a trans-establishment approach; Notes; 5. The calamity of Chinese Communist Party rule in mainland China; Mainland China's "winner-takes-all" conception of politics; The CCP's rise to power; A trinity of party, government and military; The calamity of the Great Leap Forward, 1958-62

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The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective, the book compares and contrasts the political development trajectory in the three regions from the early 1970s--from the election-driven liberalisation in Taiwan from 1969, the Democracy Wall Movement in mainland China in 1978, and the top-down political reforms of Governor Patten in Hong Kong after 1992--until the present day. More specifically, it sets out the different strategies and tactics political activists have taken, assesses the lessons activists have learned from both successes and failures and considers how these experiences have informed their struggles for democracy. Importantly, the book demonstrates that at the same time, throughout the period and earlier, the Chinese Communist Party has been making use of "sharp power"--Penetrating the political and information environments in Western democracies to manipulate debate and suppress dissenters living both inside and outside China--in order to strengthen its domestic position. The book discusses the nature of this sharp power, explores the rise of the security state within mainland China and examines the effectiveness of the approach, arguing that in Taiwan and Hong Kong the approach has been counterproductive, with civil society, campaigns for greater democracy and the flourishing of religion in part stimulated by the Chinese Communist Party's sharp power practices.

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Taylor & Francis

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Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong : Sharp Power and Its Discontents.

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9781138328341

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Fulda, Andreas,1977-

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