Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia
This book is the latest contribution to the decades-long debate over whether (and if so, how) democracy should take root in East Asia. On one side, a spectrum of political and public figures, including Lee Kwan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, and Tu Wei-ming, have insisted that democracy is culturally specific...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 567-568 |
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Summary: | This book is the latest contribution to the decades-long debate over whether (and if so, how) democracy should take root in East Asia. On one side, a spectrum of political and public figures, including Lee Kwan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, and Tu Wei-ming, have insisted that democracy is culturally specific: it reflects fundamentally Western individualism and is neither appropriate for nor attractive to Confucian societies (broadly speaking, the swath of Chinese-influenced cultures stretching from Japan to Singapore), which are culturally more receptive to moral authoritarianism. On the other side, critics of the so-called “Asian values” school regard democracy as a universal aspiration and deem the lofty political rhetoric of Confucianism to be a thin disguise for political repression. |
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ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst041 |