In the beginning of October 1949, the bloody Chinese Civil War was nearing its end, and Mao Zedong had proudly declared the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). With the Nationalists defeated, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could now focus on its aims on fully reuniting the country and instituting socialism. The disastrous effects of the latter aim are well-known. However, the vagueness of this first notion – of fully “reunitin...
...ry of democratic transition, its rigid political demarcation within the population, and its oversaturation of media and broadcast outlets. The Republic of China, led by the KMT government, retreated to the island of Taiwan in 1949 after its defeat in the Chinese Civil War. The transition from a nation of immense territory to one of limited resources remains a painful chapter in the annals of Taiwanese memory. Still a young democracy (this year’s...
As President Barack Obama put it in a November 2010 speech, the Constitution of India and the United States Constitution “begin with the same revolutionary words.” Those words, of course, are “We the People.” This may seem to be a coincidence of diction, but the rights and ideals of democracy and personal freedom enshrined in India’s 1949 constitution bear a striking resemblance to those articulated in Philadelphia. India, however, is a lonely...
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