A review of China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead by Bruce Gilley.
About the Author
Merle Goldman is professor emerita of Chinese history at Boston University, associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, and author of the forthcoming book From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China.
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