Democracy of the Dead

Will democracy figure prominently in China''s future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and Confucius.

Those most sanguine about the future of Chinese-Western relations presume that a modernized China will be essentially westernized as we...