China and democracy : the prospect for a democratic China / edited by Suisheng Zhao.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Larry Diamond -- Introduction: China's Democratization Reconsidered / Suisheng Zhao -- 1. Chinese Democracy: The Lessons of Failure / Andrew J. Nathan -- 2. A Tragedy of History: China's Search for Democracy in the Twentieth Century / Suisheng Zhao -- 3. Confucianism and Western Democracy / Shaohua Hu -- 4. Democracy in China: The Theory and Practice of Minben / Enbao Wang and Regina F. Titunik -- 5. New Moral Foundations of Chinese Democratic Institutional Design / Baogang He -- 6. The Conceptual Evolution of Democracy in Intellectual Circles' Rethinking of State and Society / Yijiang Ding -- 7. Plural Institutionalism and the Emergence of Intellectual Public Spaces in China: A Case Study of Four Intellectual Groups / Edward X. Gu -- 8. The Limits of the Chinese State: Public Morality and the Xu Honggang Campaign / Dawn Einwalter --

9. The Prospects for Democratization in China: Evidence from the 1995 Beijing Area Study / Daniel V. Dowd, Allen Carlson and Mingming Shen -- 10. The Political Pragmatism of Chinese University Students at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century / Che-po Chan -- 11. Economic Development and Village Elections in Rural China / Tianjian Shi -- 12. Chinese Nationalism and Authoritarianism in the 1990s / Suisheng Zhao.