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China On the Capitalist Road
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2006 (whole No. 224)
- pp. 7-8
- 10.1353/dss.2006.0010
- Article
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In 2005, China experienced more than seventy five thousand public protests in rural villages and urban factories. These bursts of discontent appear to have made a deep impression on China's party leaders. As in nineteenth-century Europe, the specter of revolution calls forth reform. But the capitalist road has lots of twists and turns. A recent trip to Beijing presented a myriad of images.