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Observers often note the glaring contrast between China's stunning economic progress and stalled political reforms. Although sustained growth in GNP has not bro

Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have el

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

Among the most significant political reforms implemented by the Chinese government since 1989 is the introduction of competitive elections into rural villages.

In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by loc