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This chapter examines minkan in the 1980s, the decade that saw the transformation of unofficial magazines and the opening up of society. Although the Democracy Wall had been shut down, the issues it had raised and anticipated became widely debated and practiced in the subsequent years. The opening of the country to the outside world stimulated its peoples’ imagination of other possible ways of life. For many, this was a time of liberation and vigor.
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Jiang, S. (2015). Development and Transformation. In: Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492081_5
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