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Bin Xu, The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 254p. $73.00 Hardcover; $26 Paperback; $15 e-Book

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    Huan Gao

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Gao, H. Bin Xu, The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. J OF CHIN POLIT SCI 23, 309–311 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-018-9550-y

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