Books by Kellee Tsai
Capitalism without Democracy
by Kellee Tsai
Kellee Tsai’s book looks at the curious fact that while an affluent class of private entrepreneurs and business people has arisen in China as a result of economic reform, the new Chinese bourgeoisie has displayed no real interest in Western-style democracy. And this in turn appears to violate one of the most sacred canons of the classical theory of modernisation – that the emergence of an affluent, self-confident urban commercial and industrial bourgeoisie comprises a potent force for democratisation.
Interviews where books by Kellee Tsai were recommended
The best books on Obstacles to Political Reform in China, recommended by Richard Baum
The China specialist and UCLA professor Richard Baum (1940-2012) says that he sometimes feels genuine admiration for China’s technocratic leaders. Other days, he shakes his head at their obsessive intransigence and China’s endemic political insecurity.
