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Home / blog / Andrew J. Nathan writes in Foreign Affairs about Xu Zhiyong and the democracy movement in China

Andrew J. Nathan writes in Foreign Affairs about Xu Zhiyong and the democracy movement in China

Andrew-Nathan-Better550Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article “A China of Citizens: Xu Zhiyong’s Quest for a Free China” in the January 13, 2017 edition of Foreign Affairs.

In the article, Professor Nathan writes about democracy activist Xu Zhiyong, noting “Xu’s strategy involved using social media to draw attention to the problem, attracting print media coverage, generating petitions, convening academic conferences on the underlying issues, and then proposing a resolution too moderate for the authorities to refuse.”

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