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On December 5, 1978, Wei Ching-sheng, a young Chinese dissident, in a wall-poster entitled ”The Fifth Modernization”, argued that the ”modernization” of China could not be accomplished unless a ”fifth modernization” would be added to the official four—the modernization of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defense —, and by this ”fifth modernization” he meant the establishment of democracy2.
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Domes, J. (1989). Democracy and Modernization in China. In: Klenner, W. (eds) Trends of Economic Development in East Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73907-1_12
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