Why China Won’t Become a Democracy Under the Communist Party

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Why China Won’t Become a Democracy Under the Communist Party

A Chinese paramilitary policeman guards at Tiananmen Square in China on July 4, 2013. Feng Li/Getty Images

Even today, economist Xu Chenggang still credits the decade he spent on a farm during China’s Cultural Revolution as the most impactful period of his life.

The farm in northeast China, 20 miles from the former Soviet Union, was by no means the only source of learning for the scholar.

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