A Critical Study Of Confucianism And Democratization In East Asia The book, Confucianism and Democratization is a scholarly work written by the author, D. C. Shin. Published by: https://expertassignmenthelp.com/ Filename: 1SAMPLE16C19-A-Critical-Study-Of-Confucianism-And- Democratization-In-East-Asia.PDF For more free samples visit: https://expertassignmenthelp.com/linguistics-assignment-help/ Uploaded: Dec 01, 2016 Enjoy Abstract The book, Confucianism and Democratization is a scholarly work written by the author, D. C. Shin. The previous work on this book done by me presents the details of the book how the author has dealt with an old and intricate topic whether Confucianism is associated with democratization, and if yes, in what ways these two are interlinked. In this paper, I would provide a critical study of the author's arguments with its empirical, statistical results as well as its validity. Twentieth century East Asia has been widely affected by the process of democratization; it has changed the nationalistic movements of Confucian dominant countries, namely, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam in East Asia. The Freedom House Data that shows the yearly stats has rated China, Vietnam and North Korea as ‘NOT FREE’ countries; whereas, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea are free and Singapore is partly free. It shows the data from 1993 till 2015