Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan

Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan
ISBN-10
9629965461
ISBN-13
9789629965464
Category
Political Science
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2013-06-07
Publisher
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Author
Ya-Chung Chuang

Description

Democracy on Trial is an attempt to begin to negotiate the problem of writing about and understanding democracy and social movements in Taiwan, and what they can tell us about a place and country that for me is both home and the field, an object of study and yet also an area of hope and engagement. "Democracy on Trial is as impressive for its conceptual sophistication as it is for its ethnographic depth. Chuang’s personal experiences and engagement with the movements he describes and analyzes bring to life the wealth of documentary and ethnographic data. The study should be of interest not just to Taiwan scholars and readers, but also those interested in issues of democracy in China and East Asia, the politics of TaiwanPRC relations, and social movement scholars and activists."y Arif Dirlik, Author of Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity.

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