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China's Embedded Activism
Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Patterns of China's Lost Harmony
A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection
The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of years ago. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony combines historical documentation with contemporary...
Published June 22nd 1994 by Routledge