Abstract

In China, market reform did not increase popular desire for democracy. In fact, the massive urban demonstrations in 1989 were triggered mostly by the fear that reform was going too fast. Although Chinese urbanites enjoyed the newly available consumer goods, they were deeply divided and unable to identify the sources of the negative consequences of reform.

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