Journal Call no. | AP8.W56 |
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Author | Wang, Yongzhi. |
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Article Title | Democracy in the villages : bigger say for the farmers in running their lives / Wang Yongzhi and Li Hui. |
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Is Part Of | Window ; v.5, no.9, 8 Mar 1996, p.18-19, illus. |
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Abstract | Democracy used to seem far from the thoughts of farmers, who make up 80 per cent of China's population of 1.2 billion. Today, there's no escaping it where village councils corral everyone into debates on one issue after another, and more than 1 million villages have had at least two term elections to date. |
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