Embracing or Deferring Democracy? Liang Qichao’s Appropriation of American Experience for Chinese Political Reform -- a Dialogue with Tocqueville across Time and Space

• In Event: Annexation, Colonialism, and American Exceptionalism

Brief Overview

This paper examines how Liang Qichao's trip to America shaped his views about Chinese democratic reform and undertakes a novel transhistorical comparison of Tocqueville and Liang's similar perspectives.

Author

• Kuangyu Zhao, Indiana University-Bloomington