Participation Required: How Communism Changed China

The book “Participation Required” is a chronicle of not merely what changes the Chinese Communist Party brought, but how it enacted them, with what success, in the face of what resistance, and against which normative backdrop they may be evaluated.
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Participation Required: How Communism Changed China
The cover of James Townsend's "Political Participation in Communist China." (University of California Press)
Matthew Robertson
9/27/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Political Participation in Communist China

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Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.