Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Anecdotes about democracy in China

Dr. Timothy C. Lim, who teaches at Cal State, LA, posted 5 minutes of excerpts from Ted Koppel's People's Republic of Capitalism to illustrate a common attitude about democracy and governing in China. (One of the two Chinese interviewed is definitely not "middle class.")

‪China's "middle class" and democracy‬



Excerpts from the Ted Koppel series, The People's Republic of Capitalism. These two scenes are designed to illustrate the attitude of China's upper and middle classes to the prospects of political change, especially democracy, in China. The key point is obvious: the middle and upper classes prefer authoritarianism to democracy and will continue to support the Chinese Communist Party as long as their economic interests are protected.

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