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Liberalism has had a long history in China. Western culture and ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity began influencing China about 200 years ago and continue to have a major impact. Although poorly understood and inadequately diffused before the market-oriented reform of the late 1970s, in the past three decades liberalism has become an important school of thought among Chinese intellectual circles, and a liberal camp was established in China in the late 1990s.1
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Li, H. (2015). Liberalism. In: Political Thought and China’s Transformation. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427816_2
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