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1384. Acting out democracy: political theater in modern China / Jospeh W. Esherick / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (eds.). - pp.835-865 In: The Journal of Asian Studies. - Vol 49, no 4 (1990) Anlyses China's 1989 democracy movement. They reject most of the common interpretations particularly those that would associate the Tienanmen demonstrations with Western notions of participatory democracy. Instead, they see those events as political theatre in which improvised, untitled scenarios were presented to express beliefs about the exercise of political …

…history - but it is also politically entrenched and ill-prepared to take steps necessary to reform itself. A democratic transition no longer hinges on the absence of democrats or a politically informed public / the main obstacle is the regime itself, and yet, Nathan argues, democracy may be the only way out of the current dilemma. Keywords: Political development / Political systems / Democratization / China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1418. Nathan, Andrew J. China's path from communism. - pp.30-42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**