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On China's Descending Spiral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Extract

The present condition of Communist China raises a political question of great theoretical and practical importance. The question is whether there are limits to the hardships which any government can safely inflict upon the governed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1962

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References

1 Here, I think, is the real explanation of the smaller number of reports of oedematous illness after 1959. Vitamin B, in the rice cortex, is a specifie for this.

2 No. 9, January–March 1962.

3 Published by M.I.T. and John Wiley, 1954.