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  Democracy - Uncyclopedia
Although Democracy has the same name as a political system practiced in ancient Greece, it should not be confused with that system that was characterized by active participation in public affairs by one small segment of society, and overt slavery by the rest.
Adherents of Democracy are encouraged to express a public allegiance to one of the two major sects, or "parties." These sects have different names in different countries.
Democracy seeks to bring all members of society into its practice, and to this end the leaders of the religion permit a number of smaller sects to exist that appeal to more obscure segments, including one called the Libertarian Party, which preaches dogmas that are closely related to the political philosophy of the same name.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Democracy   (545 words)

  
 Chinese Democracy
Given this long and tortuous history of democracy in China, and the numerous connotations and layers of meaning associated with the term "minzhu", when the term appeared on wall posters again in 1989, it was sometimes used less for its intrinsic meaning than for its ability to link present concerns with those of the past.
Chinese students knew from experience that describing their struggle as a "democratic" one was the best way to win international sympathy in the industrialized West.
The "Goddess of Democracy," although it had plenty of antecedents in Chinese religious and political ceremonies, was also instrumental in tugging the heartstrings of millions of Westerners who drew a connection to the Statue of Liberty and assumed that Chinese aspirations were identical to their own.
www.tsquare.tv /themes/essay.html   (1409 words)

  
 The Globalist | Global Politics -- China's Take on Political Democracy
China’s democracy is a democracy in which the overwhelming majority of the people act as masters of state affairs.
China’s democracy is a democracy guaranteed by the people’s democratic dictatorship.
China’s democracy is a democracy with democratic centralism as the basic organizational principle and mode of operation.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4899   (916 words)

  
 SPIN.com: Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy (Interscope)
There is really only one way for Chinese Democracy to avoid utter and absolute failure: It needs to be the greatest rock album ever made.
Chinese Democracy is not the greatest rock album ever made.
Chinese Democracy is simultaneously propulsive and ponderous, and there are some electrifying guitar arpeggios on both "Silk Worm" and "Thursday Morning Strip Club" (performed, I assume, by either Buckethead, Robin Finck, Zakk Wylde, Johnny Marr, or Brian May -- all five are listed in the liner notes).
www.spin.com /reviews/magazine/2006/04/060323_gunsnroses   (557 words)

  
 Chinese Democracy in 1989
Chinese democrats have consistently positioned themselves as remonstrators rather than opponents, pressing the party to reform in its own interests and in keeping with its own ideals.
The Chinese democrats have long believed that the regime was capable of reform from within, and the democrats themselves continued to believe in socialism, albeit of a democratic variety.
That the democracy movement's mainstream was not anti-communist does not, however, gainsay the fact that a fundamental conflict existed between the democrats and the regime over the nature of socialist democracy, as well as over the pace of progress toward it.
www.tsquare.tv /themes/Nathan.html   (7967 words)

  
 Harvard Asia Pacific Review
In 1998, mainland Chinese democracy activists announced the creation of an opposition party-the China Democracy Party-marking the beginning of a new phase in the development of the Chinese democracy movement.
Therefore, the launch of the democracy movement was a sort of awakening, enlightening both the thought and action of the citizenry.
China's present democracy movement is a positive factor for future political transformation in China, whereas the current authorities' policy of suppression is irresponsible and dangerous for China's future and international peace and stability.
hcs.harvard.edu /~hapr/winter00_millenium/ChineseDemocracy.html   (997 words)

  
 Chances of Chinese democracy: an analysis
Chinese democracy is a volatile, hot button issue, and we should be sensitive to levels of rage and frustration that are scarcely imaginable to complacent Americans.
No less, there is such thing as "behind the scenes" at the Chinese democracy movement, as well as growth and evolution in the scene.
Chinese dissidents can always get the ball rolling on new initiatives, but the movement would not stop if they left the group.
www.freechina.net /2004/comment/00009.htm   (1543 words)

  
 Chinese democracy movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chinese democracy movement (Simplified Chinese: 中国民主运动, Traditional Chinese: 中國民主運動; pinyin: Zhōngguó Mínzhǔyùndòng, abbreviated as Mingyun "民运") is a loosely organized political movement in the People's Republic of China against continued one-party rule by the Communist Party of China.
The difficulties that the Soviet Union had in converting to democracy and capitalism was used to validate the PRC's official position that slow gradual reform was a wise policy.
Ideologically, the government's first reaction to the democracy movement was a rather unconvincing effort to focus on the personal behavior of individual dissidents and argue that they were tools of foreign powers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_democracy_movement   (1155 words)

  
 White paper on political democracy (full text)
Democracy is an outcome of the development of political civilization of mankind.
Democracy of a country is generated internally, not imposed by external forces.
Based on the specific conditions of China, the CPC and the Chinese people first engaged in a New Democratic Revolution, and after New China was founded in 1949, and proceeding from the actual situation of the primary stage of socialism, began to practice socialist democracy with its own characteristics.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-10/19/content_486206.htm   (408 words)

  
 index of China Democracy Party
When President Clinton was visiting China, the Chinese Government and the President Jiang Zeming demonstrated the gesture of enlightenment which has won high acclaim from international community.
We the Chinese Democratic Party strongly oppose the kow tow policy to the Chinese Communists, We hope that the international media also express its opposition to the pacifism.
We believe that the Chinese Communist dictators are unable to eradicate the existence of the CDP and its spirit.
www.freechina.net /cdp   (989 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Chinese democracy activist Wang released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A longtime Chinese activist who helped lead the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests was released from prison on medical parole Thursday and left immediately for the United States, a human rights activist said.
Wang, 37, one of the founders of the China Democracy Party, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 1998.
He was also one of the student leaders of the 1989 demonstrations that led to the military crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, died.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/03/04/chinese_democracy_activist_wang_released   (249 words)

  
 China, Hong Kong, Chinese Democracy and the Future
Democracy, freedom and happiness are the only goals of modernization.
Democracy has been able to surmount all these obstacles because it is highly valued and eagerly sought by the people.
The wisdom of the masses to govern a nation is an intoxication of liberalism.
www.rjgeib.com /thoughts/china/china.html   (621 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
In the same vein, a recent white paper describes China as having a "socialist democracy", that is, "democracy with Chinese characteristics".
Hu was sacked in 1987 for apparently leaning towards "Western, bourgeois" principles of democracy, and for indirectly encouraging questioning of the communist system, as well as for pushing economic reforms beyond their intended limits.
This seems to indicate the tradition of the Italian Communist Party, which upheld democracy in Italy in the 1970s, even against the threat of the communist Red Brigades; or that of the Marxists from the anti-Stalinist school of Frankfurt, which stirred the European students' movement of the 1960s.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/GK09Ad01.html   (2078 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Democracy With Chinese Characteristics
Chinese police then moved in and arrested at least one member of almost every household in the village and informed them that they would be sent down for three years unless their families gave up their opposition to the chief, who of course has retained his position.
The Chinese Government, which is notorious for massaging unpleasant statistics, actually admitted that there were upwards of 74,000 demonstrations of public unrest in 2004 — up from 58,000 the previous year.
What the overwhelming majority of the Chinese nation, together with the democratic nations of the world, want to hear is that the country will move to a political system where the government of the day is chosen by the people and is accountable to the people.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-10-30/33922.html   (1108 words)

  
 Chinese Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese Democracy is the famous name of a long-delayed album from Guns N' Roses that remains in production.
Rose said in an interview during the 2002 Chinese Democracy Tour that the band had yet to bring out their "big guns" with regards to songs they had played from the album.
In a press release regarding this new Chinese Democracy Tour, it cryptically states, "As for Guns N' Roses forthcoming "Chinese Democracy" album, the only comment at this time is that there are 13 Tuesdays left between now and the end of the year".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_Democracy_(album)   (1892 words)

  
 Democracy with Chinese Characteristics - by Sascha Matuszak
Intra-Party Democracy basically means certain positions which were once appointed by the next level up, are now open for debate.
The India-Tibet border is not clear (although the annexation of Tibet by China sure is) and the status of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh remains unclear (until the Chinese say otherwise).
The Chinese are scared too much freedom of choice for the Taiwanese, and they’ll actually decide for themselves what to do about reunification.
www.antiwar.com /matuszak/?articleid=488   (835 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Chinese democracy activist released on medical parole, heads for United ...
BEIJING – A longtime Chinese activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later co-founded a democracy party was released from prison on Thursday and left for the United States, a human rights activist said.
The medical parole of Wang Youcai, on the heels of another prisoner release and a sentence reduction for a third activist, suggests the Chinese government is moving on cases the United States has identified as priorities.
He was also one of more than a dozen student leaders of the 1989 demonstrations that led to the military crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, died.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040304-0437-china-activistreleased.html   (861 words)

  
 Are Chinese racists? - Democracy Frontline - Blog
I have heard Chinese call fl people monkeys, savages, cannibals etc., and we all know the word ‘gweilo’ (a Chinese racial slur directed at Caucasian men, which means, “white devil”).
The Chinese friends and aquaintances I have in australia are nothing but polite and kind to me. However many of them have run away from the one child policy in China.
Chinese in Indonesia tend to be very racist towards the Javanese, but the Javanese often return it.
democracyfrontline.org /blog/?p=559   (1327 words)

  
 Simon World :: Chinese Democracy On the Way
The CCP has unleashed market forces that have made the Chinese economy go very fast; but now, the very speed of the economy means they cannot suddenly pull on the brakes or jump off without very grave consequences.
I think it is important to remember that democracy with a universal franchise took over a century to establish itself in the United States and in most Western countries - Switzerland only gave women the vote a generation ago.
But given how carefully Chinese senior party officials word their statements, I think that these words nevertheless provide some grounds for optimism after a lapse of almost two decades and after 1989 was thought to have definitively ended any progress on this front.
simonworld.mu.nu /archives/116055.php   (2050 words)

  
 World Movement for Democracy - DemocracyNews
The World Movement for Democracy is a global network of democrats, including activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to develop new forms of cooperation to promote the development of democracy.
It also urges democracy activists to build national and international networks of cooperation and solidarity to strengthen their efforts and resist attempts by anti-democratic actors to impede their work.
The program enables democracy practitioners, scholars, and journalists from around the world to deepen their understanding of democracy and enhance their ability to promote democratic change.
www.wmd.org /democracynews/may1002.html   (2371 words)

  
 Democracy Wall - China Mainland - June 4th Tiananmen Memorial
Democracy is not a moral state of people consciousness, it is only the overstructure of the result of an high economical development.
Democracy is an unavoidable conseguence of a " pure " model of an even (smooth) economic development, it is her most suitable political folder.
Democracy is not a safely guarantteed gift of the Comunist Party of China for the Chinese people and it is currenly an orphane unless nurtured with care by the Chinese people themselves.
books.dreambook.com /vead/tiananmen2.html   (11917 words)

  
 In Search of Chinese Democracy - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The greatest momentum for democracy, Edmund Fung contends, emerged between 1929 and 1949 with civil opposition to the one-party rule of the Guomindang.
This analysis of China's liberal intellectuals and political activists who pursued democracy in the 1930s and 1940s, fills a gap in the historical literature on the period between May Fourth Radicalism and the Chinese Communists' accession to power.
Fung argues that the reasons the growth of democracy was thwarted during this period were ultimately more political than cultural.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521771242   (282 words)

  
 Axl Rose Says Chinese Democracy Released in the Fall - The Deadbolt
The front man of Guns N' Roses, Axl Rose, has finally confirmed what fans have been waiting over 13 years to hear, the fabled G N'R album, Chinese Democracy, will be done by the fall.
Aside from the welcome news that Chinese Democracy is actually coming, fans can also look forward to a possible tour, beginning on May 12 with four nights at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Axl reportedly said that the band is virtually unchanged from the 2002 line-up, and the lead guitar replacement wasn't a former member of the band as various rumors hinted at.
www.thedeadbolt.com /news/111127/gnrchinesedemocracy.php   (366 words)

  
 CD Baby: KITTY & THE KOWALSKIS: Chinese Democracy
This is the second full-length album and most daring effort to date, "Chinese Democracy", after releasing "All Hopped Up on Goofballs" as the Kowalskis.
chinese democracy is a bubblegum pop punk rock red nail varnished middle finger at big arena rock bands, showing everyone how to make a classic album.
Chinese Democracy is filled with rocking songs that command you to get up and dance - the record has more hooks than a world championship fishing tournament.
cdbaby.com /cd/kowalskis2   (636 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Chinese democracy activist released from prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BEIJING (AP) — China released a longtime democracy activist Thursday who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — the third time in a week Beijing has moved on similar cases after lobbying from Washington.
Wang's release was the latest among cases the U.S. government has identified as priorities and was seen as a sign that the Chinese government was responding directly to Washington's human rights concerns.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment, and a switchboard operator at the prison couldn't confirm whether Wang was released and said no officials were available.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-04-china-release_x.htm   (604 words)

  
 Chinese Democracy Activist Wang Released (Tiananmen Square protest)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BEIJING - A longtime Chinese activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later co-founded a democracy party was released from prison on Thursday and left for the United States, a human rights activist said.
The early medical parole of Wang, 37, who was serving an 11-year sentence for subversion after helping found the China Democracy Party, follows moves in the last week to reduce the sentence of an Uighur businesswoman in Xinjiang and the release of a Tibetan nun.
Wang and two other founders of the Chinese Democracy Party were sentenced to 11, 12 and 13 years respectively back in 1998.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1090469/posts   (2147 words)

  
 Chinese Democracy - Guns n' Roses - Music Forum
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Location: UK Perhaps 'Chinese Democracy' is going to come out this year after all.
I'm dreading "Chinese Democracy" and I indeed agree that China has become much more democratic since Axl came up with the idea.
www.radiomute.com /16893-chinese-democracy-guns-n-roses.html   (947 words)

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