Abstract
Chinese democracy is the historical choice of the Chinese people. People’s social choice is the unification of subjectivity and objectivity. Any social choice achieved not only is the result of the initiative but also is limited and constrained by objective conditions. People make a choice in the possible space provided by historical conditions and implement it.
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See John King Fairbank (1993, p. 544).
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The Factual Record of Qing Emperor, Chung Hwa Book Company, 1987, Vol. 366.
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1 tael = 50 g.
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Record of date of founding of the Revive China Society is not discovered; here, the formulation of the Constitution of the Revive China Society by Sun Yat-sen and payment of membership fees by the first batch of members were regarded as the standard.
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”Critique of Political Economy”, Preamble, Selected Works of Marx and Engels, Vol. 2, People’s Publishing House, 1995, p. 32.
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See Aristotle (1983, p. 352–362).
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Aihui: a city in Heilongjiang, a northern province; Tengchong: a city in Yunnan, a southern province.
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Mongolia declared independence in the early 20th century and announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of Mongolia on November 26, 1924. The Republic of China recognized the independence of the People’s Republic of Mongolia on January 5, 1946. Therefore, when the population distribution line was calculated in 1982, compared with that in 1935, the proportion of land area on both sides of Aihui-Tengchong line changed from 64% to 57.1% in the west; from 36% to 42.9% in the east.
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Ma Jiantang: Release the Main Data of the Sixth National Population Census of the People’s Republic of China, the central government portal. http://www.gov.cn/gzdt/2011-04/28/content_1854048.htm.
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See the Natural Resources, Survey of China, The People’s Republic of China Yearbook, Chinese government portal. http://www.gov.cn/test/2005-07/27/content_17405.htm.
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See Wang Hao (2013).
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Here means China.
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Fang, N. (2015). The Origins of Chinese Democracy. In: China’s Democracy Path. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47343-6_2
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