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Rory Truex, Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China

(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 213pp. $34.99

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Distelhorst, G. Rory Truex, Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China. J OF CHIN POLIT SCI 24, 361–364 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-018-09601-y

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