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

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On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal SystemLi Yizhe Debates\nAuthor(s): Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen, Jonathan Unger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: M.E. Sharpe\nISBN-13: 9780873323413, 978-0873323413\nSynopsis\nThe 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 1974 by a small group of young intellectuals in Canton, probed into the country's political ailments and sought answers to the breakdown of due process of law. The two major authors of that essay subsequently emerged during the 'democracy movement' of [tel] as nationally influent.