Whither China's Democracy―Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident

This weighty monograph offers a thoughtful assessment of one of globally raising China s most profound political issues democratization since the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. Not exactly a looking back retrospective nor a typical commemorative work, this book harbors a more forward prospecting approach with 11 substantive chapters yielding informed analysis and insightful interpretations of various key issues. The core subjects range from legal foundation of Chinese democracy, middle-class politics, Internet based-democratization debates and pro-democratic mobilizations, civic society activism, to the external and international media s inputs, democracy and China s ethnic minorities; and PRC-Vatican interface. This timely volume will be of considerable interest to scholars, journalists, and those keen to learn about contemporary China s ideo-political transformation.