Li Fan

Director of the World and China Institute, a non-government institute in Beijing.

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Dec. 10, 2001

Grassroots Democracy in China

Critical assessments of grassroots democracy in rural China are hard to make: have the reforms that have been undertaken created a genuine d…

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