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Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China since the Late 1970s

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Since 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been ruled by the Communist Party of China (CPC). In 1978, in response to changing domestic and global contexts, the CPC-led state (under Deng Xiaoping) began to focus on economic development rather than class struggle, and promulgated a reform policy intended to open China to the world.

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Law, WW. (2016). Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China since the Late 1970s. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-881-7_3

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