In Search of Chinese Democracy : Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929-1949 (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The dictatorial regime; 2. Setting the opposition agenda: the issue of human rights, 1929?31; 3. The National Emergency 1932?6: political and intellectual responses; 4. In defense of democracy 1933?6; 5. An abortive democratic experiment: the people's political council, 1939?45; 6. Wartime democratic thought; 7. The third force movement: the Chinese democratic league, 1941?5; 8. 'Peace, democracy, unification, and reconstruction' 1946; 9. The last stand of Chinese liberalism; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Glossary; Index.