Governing Taiwan and Tibet : : Democratic Approaches / / Baogang He.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: He, Baogang,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Problematises China's current policies towards Tibet and Taiwan and offers a fresh democratic approachWhen it comes to talking about democracy in China, Chinese nationalists argue that it cannot solve China's problems, while Chinese liberals remain unduly silenced. But China is facing a national identity crisis, compounded by Tibet and Taiwan, where significant proportions of both populations do not identify with the Chinese nation-state. Could democracy realistically address the problems in China's national identity?Baogang He opens up a dialogue in which Chinese liberals can offer viable alternatives in defence of key democratic principles and governance. He upholds the search for a political space in which democratic governance in China can feasibly be developed.Problematises existing hard-liners' realist policies towards Tibet and Taiwan by examining how democracy can or cannot provide an answerExamines the different meanings, practices, institutions and various impacts of democracy with regards to the problem of China's national identityPresents the difficulties and obstacles to the democratic approach to the respective Tibet and Taiwan questions

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theoretical Approaches -- 1 The Idea of Democratic Governance -- 2 The Real Utopian Approach -- 3 The Empire Thesis and its Critics -- Part 2 On Taiwan -- 4 Nationalism, Democratisation and the Taiwan Question -- 5 Referendum and the Taiwanese National Identity -- 6 Sovereignty and the Taiwan Question -- Part 3 On Tibet -- 7 Confucian and Marxist Theoretical Traditions of Minority Rights and Beyond -- 8 Beyond Socialist Autonomy in Tibet -- 9 Beyond Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Multi-linguistic Policy -- 10 A Deliberative Approach to the Tibet Autonomy Issue -- 11 The Idea of Deliberative Referendum: Synthesis and Conclusion -- References -- Index