Democratic China

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One book I might recommend on this topic is a collection of essays by Daniel Bell called China's New Confucianism.  Bell teaches Poltical Science at Qinghua University in Beijing (the county's second-most prestigeous university.  One of his chapters in the book is about the contemporary Chinese political theorist Jiang Qing, who writes books about what form a coming Chinese democracy might take.  Jiang argues that such a government would be a democracy with a Confucian flavor, having a prime minister and a tri-partite legislative body, with an upper and lower house and a third house of "ru" or the best scholars in all sectors of society that would act as both an advisory arm and oversight body for the other branches of legislature and for the prime minister.  Pretty interesting stuff.  Also shows that scholars inside China are theorizing about Chinese democracy.