Product Description

This book takes a close look at major issues about China's democratisation, highlighting main barriers to democratisation and providing key angles to understanding China's great difficulties in making democratic progress. The author examines the possible linkages between elite, class and regime transition in China, and maintains that China's democratic development needs to be understood in the context of state-society relations, all the while emphasising that class power is playing an increasingly significant role in China's elite politics and the people's struggle for democracy.

About the Author

Zheng Yongnian is currently a senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He is also a co-editor of China: An International Journal. He is a recipient of the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Dr Zheng has extensively studied both China's domestic political economy and its external relations. His papers have appeared in journals such as Political Science Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Asian Journal of Political Science, and Pacific Review. He is the author of Bringing the Party Back In: How China is Governed (2004), Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China (1999) and Globalization and State Transformation in China (2004). He also co-edited Reform, Legitimacy and Dilemmas(2000), The Nanxun Legacy and China's Development in the Post-Deng Era (2001), China's Post-Jiang Leadership Succession (2002), and Damage Control (2003).