The Search for Civil Society and Democracy in China

Tony Saich is a professor of Chinese politics at Ike Sinological Institute at the Rijks Universiteit, Leiden, and a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. His most recent hooks are Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), with David E. Apter, and The Rise To Power of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1949: Documents and Analysis (Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994).