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The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan By Linda Chao and Ramon H. Myers. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 371p. $47.00. Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties By Bruce J. Dickson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 276p. $69.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Steven Goldstein
Affiliation:
Smith College

Extract

These books address the same issue, the democratization of Taiwan, but use diametrically opposed analytic frameworks. The results are individually unsatisfying but, paradoxically, complementary.

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© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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