Recent years have seen an emerging civil society in an authoritarian China. The authoritarian embrace of civil society challenges the conventional wisdom that c

This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and th

China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have greatly increase

"Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Kep

The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given