Toward a democratic China : the intellectual autobiography of Yan Jiaqi
During the 1980s, as director of the Political Science Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Science - China's most prestigious think-tank - Yan Jiaqi proposed many of the political reforms undertaken by the Chinese government, including term limitations for high-level officials, separation of party and state, and creation of a civil service system. In this book, Yan summarizes the thinking behind these and other reforms yet to be adopted on China's difficult path to democracy. Originally published in 1989, Yan's account of his early training in science, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Incident of 1976, and the Democracy Wall Movement of 1978-79 gives a frank appraisal of the formative events in the intellectual development of one of China's preeminent political scientists. In new chapters written for this edition, he also describes the momentous events of the spring of 1989, culminating in his escape from China following the June 4 massacre and his subsequent life in exile. Supplementing Yan's narrative is a selection of essays representing different facets of this exceptionally cosmopolitan Chinese thinker, including several pieces written since June 1989 which reflect on recent Chinese history and give Yan's view of China's prospects for the 1990s
Autobiographies
xviii, 285 pages ; 22 cm.
9780824814847, 9780824815011, 0824814843, 0824815017
25833493
Foreword / Andrew J. Nathan. 1. The Starting Point of New Advances in Science. 2. The Dusk of Philosophy. 3. Entering the Realm of Theology. 4. Roaming the World of the Past. 5. On-the-Scene Reporting: The April Fifth Movement, 1976. 6. Three Courts of Law: Imaginary Travels in Time and Space. 7. Beijing Spring: 1978-79. 8. Abolishing Life-tenure in High Leadership Positions. 9. Farewell to the Realm of Natural Dialectics. 10. The Search for Nonpoliticized Channels. 11. Toward a Chinese Civil Service System. 12. On Universal Cultural Factors. 13. On Heads of State and Government. 14. Division of State Power in Four Directions. 15. The Office for Political Reform. 16. Amid Storms in the Realm of Theory. 17. The Road to National Wealth and Power. 18. On Social Capital. 19. Another Beijing Spring: 1989. 20. Exile
Selected Essays and Interviews. 21. Religion, Reason, and Practice: Visits to Three Courts of Law (September 1978). 22. Science Is a World of Three Freedoms (May 1986). 23. The Aspiration to Pursue Truth and Beauty Supersedes All Else (June 1986). 24. Reforming China's Political Structure: An Interview with Yan Jiaqi by Dai Qing (June 1986). 25. China Is No Longer a Dragon: An Interview with Yan Jiaqi by Dai Qing (March 1988). 26. My Four Convictions Regarding Science (May 1988). 27. Origins of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (April 1989). 28. May Seventeenth Manifesto (May 1989). 29. China Is Not a Republic (July 1989)
English ed. and translation of: Wo di si xiang zi zhuan
Includes index