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" Democracy is a good thing : "
Yu Keping
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BL
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700860
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b523049
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| Main Entry
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Yu, Keping
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Democracy is a good thing : : essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China /\ Yu Keping
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, c2008
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xxxi, 219 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0815796943 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780815796947 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction / by Cheng Li -- 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 -- China's economic modernization and sustainability -- Harmony between man and nature : China's 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
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| Abstract
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"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
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Democracy-- China
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China, Politics and government
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320.951
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JQ1516.Y8 2008
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