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Author Weller, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1953-

Title Alternate civilities : democracy and culture in China and Taiwan / Robert P. Weller
Published Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 172 pages) : illustrations
Series Anthropology online
Contents List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 civil society. An opposed school of thought is far more optimistic about democracy, because it sees market economies of the kind China has begun to foster as pushing inexorably against authoritarian political control and reproducing Western patte
Notes Originally published: 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index
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Subject Civil society -- China
Democratization -- China
Political culture -- China
Civil society -- Taiwan
Democratization -- Taiwan
Political culture -- Taiwan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Civil society
Democratization
Political culture
China
Taiwan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780786747801
0786747803
0813339316
9780813339313