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Is there a Political “Left” or “Right” in China? Charting China’s Ideological Spectrum

Analysis of hundreds of thousands of survey responses reveals that ideological positions in China do not align neatly along a left-right divide, but do reflect important economic, political, and nationalistic preferences of China’s body politic
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