The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan

by Linda Chao and Ramon H. Myers

Book Overview

The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland, the Kuomintang established a new polity on Taiwan that allowed for four remarkable patterns of political development. These patterns reflect a complex political process of behavioral and institutional change in which the key requisites for democracy now exist in Taiwan. Taiwan's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872391
• ISBN13: 9780801872396
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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