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Chinese Democracy

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This reviewer is strange...the source of funding should not and does not really determine the approach and conclusion of the scholar. If this person who gives one star is "of Columbia U.", and suppose he is financially supported by "Columbia U.", does this mean that all his opinions are regulated by Columbia University? To be fair, I think this book is worth reading. First, it is lucid and easy to read, second, iit provides a very interesting and historical perspevctive to look at Chinese dissident politics. And you will find how Chinese political dissidents of the early 1980s, i.e. Democracy Wall, thought, talked and acted the same way the older generations of political activists did decades ago...It is through these flashbacks the book unfolds a century long Chinese political culture, as embodied in people's aspiration of democracy, however you define it. Think about Nathan's Peking Politics...He is concerned with Chinese political culture...something underlies the upheavals. As for the resource of funding...as a reader, what matters is the book itself.

Backed by Japan, Taiwan wants its independence. Neither Taiwan nor Japan wants China to become a democratic country to grow stronger and to be close to the Americans and the West. This author's project are mostly funded by the Taiwan government controled sources, or from the source that funded by the Taiwan government. He just pretends to concern making China a free world, but his job is actually to hold China there under the Communist regime to satisify his financier. - Of Columbia U.