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Political and Social Reform in China: Alive and Walking
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2008
- pp. 143-164
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The twin drivers of long-term Chinese social and political conflict and change—an increasingly robust society and a more adaptive party-state—have continued to gather strength, leading not toward Western democracy but uneven and fragile reform and liberalization.