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An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2006

Abstract

In recent years scholars have grown increasingly interested in the potential for a contentious environmental movement in China. This article explores the beliefs of university students in Beijing and finds that there is little likelihood of environmentalism among students transforming into an independent grassroots movement or becoming a source of pressure for political change.

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Articles
Copyright
© The China Quarterly, 2006

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Footnotes

For their generous help in funding this research, Phillip Stalley would like to thank the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University and the Numata Offices; Dongning Yang would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 70302005).