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Article: Public Opinion and Political Change in China
- Article from:
- The China Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Australian National University, Contemporary China Centre Jan 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Public Opinion and Political Change in China, by Wenfang Tang. PaIo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2005. xx + 237 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$21.95 (paperback).
In recent years, students of Chinese politics have engaged in heated debates about the future of Chinese reform. A careful study of those debates reveals that most of them are actually based on the respective evaluations on people's attitudes towards authority and the current reforms. In such debates, scholars tend to assume that ordinary Chinese perceive public authority and reform in certain ways and then build their arguments about the future of reform in China on such assumptions. For this reason, a proper understanding of ...