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A Comparison Between Western and Chinese Political Ideas: The Difference and Complementarity of the Liberal-Democratic and Moral-Despotic Traditions

Author: Zheng, Chuxuan
SKU: PMRT.GEN.0208.01416

$302.85

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780773490208
Publication Date: 1995
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The polarities between the Chinese and Western political traditions are striking. They contradict each other in their views of society and human nature, and in the importance allocated to law, morality and democracy. This study argues that the best ideas of both traditions could be combined in a dialectical unity, a synthesis which would facilitate progress and human development. This work of theory offers many practical lessons. China will more likely adopt Western political ideas than vice versa, but Dr. Zheng shows that some Chinese ideas are highly exportable, when stripped of their Confucian language, and that they can be reconciled with liberal-democratic thinking and free-market society. Other Asia & Pacifica Books 1999 – ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, RECOLLECTIONS AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL OF GU CHENG, 20TH CENTURY CHINESE POET: The Poetics of Death 2013 – Interrelationship of Humans and the Mongol Landscape in G. Mend-Ooyo’s altan Ovoo: A Study of the Nomadic Culture of Mongolia 2002 – SELECTED ISSUES IN MANDARIN CHINESE WORD STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

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