Neo-authoritarian theory in mainland China

In: Issues & studies: a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 84-98

Abstract

In late 1988 and early 1989, mainland China's intellectuals engaged in heated debates in which the major theme was the necessity and feasibility of no-authoritarianism. After demonstrating how neo-authoritarianism stood out as an alternative policy in the face of socio-economic problems of the 1980s in this country, the authors probe into the intellectual origin and basic precepts of neo-authoritarian theory and its inevitable failure in mainland China's political development. (DÜI-Sen)