Democratisation in Taiwan
Implications for China
By Steve Tsang and Hung-Mao Tien
January 1999
Macmillan UK
ISBN: 0333737830 hardcover: $99.50
216 pages
Democratization in Taiwan in the last decade raises the question whether a similar process can happen in China, and dispels the old conception that democratization is incompatible with the Chinese/Confucian tradition. This volume examines the nature of and the dynamics in the democratization of a Leninist style party-state in Taiwan and its implications for China - still governed under a Leninist system. It also assesses the process of democratic consolidation and the political, military and diplomatic reality which constrains democratization in Taiwan.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Taiwan's Democratization Experience and its Implications for
China
Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Transforming a Party State into a Democracy; S.Tsang
Crafting Democratic Institutions; H.Tien & T.Cheng
Electoral and Party Politics in Democratization; J.Domes
The Development of the Opposition; I.Liu
Developing a Party System and Democratic Consolidation; T.Huang & C.Yu
Civil Society and Democratization; C.Shiau
State and Identity; F.Mengin
Democratization and Beijing's Taiwan Policy; C.R.Hughes
The Challenge of Democratic Consolidation; Y.Chu
The Democratization of Taiwan: A Comparative Perspective; L.Whitehead
Index
Author Biographies:
STEVE TSANG is Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies
and a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford University. He is also Director
of its Asian Studies Centre. His more recent books are: Hong Kong: Appointment
With China (1997) and Government and Politics: A Documentary History
of Hong Kong (1995) and In the Shadow of China: Political Developments
in Taiwan since 1949 (1993).
HUNG-MAO TIEN is President of the INPR and a national policy advisor to President
Lee Teng-hui. His publications include: Government and Politics in Kuomintang
China 1927-37 (1972), The Great Transition: Social and Political Changes
in the Republic of China (1996), and Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies:
Themes and Perspectives (1997).
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