On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: Li Yizhe Debates

by Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen, Jonathan Unger

Book Overview

The Chinese political system has not been hospitable to political dissidence. From the end of the Cultural Revolution fighting in 1968 up to 1976, the year of Mao's death -- an eight year period marked by radical policy-making and political infighting -- only a single significant piece of dissident writing obtained wide circulation in China. This dissident manifesto, On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System, an angrily sardonic essay written in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873323416
• ISBN13: 9780873323413
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.