“China’s Grassroots Movement Toward Greater Freedom” via CIPE Development Blog
During the last few decades, China has been witnessing the success of unorganized, leaderless grassroots movements in bottom-up expansion of civil rights. Whether resisting the restrictions on freedom of movement or seizing individual liberties gradually conceded by the government, unorganized, non-ideological, and apolitical grassroots movements have fundamentally altered key elements of China’s one-party regime and its society at large.
In this Feature Service article, Dr. Kate Zhou, associate professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, argues that this freedom-seeking spirit of the ordinary Chinese has been driving the country’s booming economy and it has affected many elements of daily life. The Chinese Government reacts rather than leads in this transformative...