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Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan

Autor Robert Paul Weller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2019
Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system. This claim rests on the idea that ?Confucian culture? provides an alternative to Western civil values, and that China lacked the democratic traditions and even the horizontal institutions of trust that could build a c
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ISBN-13: 9780367314460
ISBN-10: 0367314460
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1 Culture, Economy, and the Roots of Civil Change, 2 Legacies, 3 The Limits to Authority, 4 Business and the Limits to Civil Association, 5 Religion: Local Association and Split Market Cultures, 6 Forms of Association and Social Action, 7 Alternate Civilities and Political Change

Notă biografică

Robert Paul Weller has been doing research on local life in China and Taiwan for over two decades. His other books include Resistance, Chaos, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts, and TiananmenUnities and Diversities in Chinese Religions, and several edited works. He is research associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture and associate professor of anthropology at Boston University.

Descriere

Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist's answer to the argument that China's cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. It compares China with the vibrant democracy that has developed over the last decade in Taiwan.