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Social Unrest in China / Thomas Lum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lum, Thomas, author.
- Series:
- CRS report for Congress ; RL33416.
- CRS report for Congress ; RL33416
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social conditions.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 16 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, 2006.
- Summary:
- "In the past few years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has experienced rising social unrest, including protests, demonstrations, picketing, and group petitioning. According to PRC official sources, "public order disturbances" have grown by nearly 50% in the past two years, from 58,000 incidents in 2003 to 87,000 in 2005. Although political observers have described social unrest among farmers and workers since the early 1990s, recent protest activities have been broader in scope, larger in average size, greater in frequency, and more brash than those of a decade ago. Fears of greater unrest have triggered debates with the Communist Party leadership about the pace of economic reforms and the proper way to respond to protesters."--Page 2.
- Notes:
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