| Number 130 April 2012 |
The Twenty-First Century Review
Re-examinations on Democracy and Democratization
4
Is Elitist Democracy Democratic Enough?
Nie Lu
17
The Periodicity of Democratic Transition: From Its Breakthrough, Breakdown to
Bao Gang-sheng
28
Democratization in Mongolia: Rational Choices of Political Elites
Qi Ling-ling
China and the World: The Past Century
42
The Birth of "Republican China": The Narratives of "Nation" in Textbooks (1900-1915)
Bi Yuan
53
Moral Worries and Solutions in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Duan Lian
Humanities
64
The Predicament of Street Arts in Contemporary China
Yuan Jin
73
The Aesthetic of Laborers' Daily Life: The Civil Spirit in Wang An-yi's Fictions
Zhan Ling, Wang Shu
Short Discourses and Peripatetic Notes
80
Unshackled Spirit beyond Censorship: Remembering Gao Hua
Su Yang
86
What Are the Purposes of Historical Studies?: The Academic Legacies and Ideological Effects of Gao Hua
Li Gong-ming
View on the World
91
Reflections on the Commercialization of Historic Blocks in Contemporary China
Xiao Jing, Cao Ke
Politics and Law
101
On John Rawls's "Toleration": Toward Pluralism?
Li Shi
Economy, Society and Media
108
The Concept of Ancestral Property and the Foundation of Ownership in Rural China
Gui Hua, Lin Hui-huang
118
A Study of Modern Buddhism in Taiwan
Chiang Tsan-teng
Books, Views and Thoughts
129
Beyond the Myth of John Marshall: A Review on Liu Lian-jun, Passivism: A Philosophical Position of Constitutional Review
Yang Wen-zhao
136
Self-Conservation in the Revolutionary Era: A Review on Zhou Enlai: A Political Life
Ruan Si-yu
Notes and Comments
148
Zhang Weiwei, China Shock: The Rise of a "Civilizational-state"
Cai Zhi-dong
152
Frederick E. Wakeman, Jr., Red Star over Shanghai, 1942-1952: The Communist Transformation of the Municipal Police
Zhang Hui-qing
156
Michael Szonyi, Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line
Liang Jia-nong
160
Tripartite Interactions
162
From the Editor’s Desk
163
Pictorial Credits
