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Notes on the contributor
John W. Tai is a professorial lecturer at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC, USA. He is the author of Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China: Importance of Leadership Connections for Establishing Effective Nongovernmental Organizations in a Non-Democracy (2015).
Notes
1 Dickson Citation2016, 310.
2 Nathan Citation2003.
3 Shambaugh 2016, 29.
4 Shambaugh 2016, 32.
5 Shambaugh 2016, 44–49.
6 Shambaugh 2016, 61.
7 Shambaugh 2016, 117.
8 Shambaugh 2016, 54.
9 Shambaugh 2016, 111.
10 Shambaugh 2016, 115.
11 Shambaugh 2016, 112–115.
12 Dickson 2016, 105–110.
13 Dickson 2016, 110–114.
14 Dickson 2016, 116.
15 The most recent books that espouse this line of argument include the following: Hildebrandt Citation2013; Simon Citation2013; Tai Citation2015; and Teets Citation2014.
16 Dickson 2016, 127.
17 See Teets Citation2014.
18 See Tai Citation2015.
19 Dickson 2016, 121.
20 Tai Citation2015, 25–28.
21 Dickson 2016, 222.
22 Dickson 2016, 222–229.
23 Dickson 2016, 203–213.
24 Dickson 2016, 260.
25 White Citation2016.
26 White 2016, 116–125.
27 White 2016, 117.
28 White 2016, 125; see also 236.
29 Dickson 2016, 288.
30 Dickson 2016, 290.
31 Dickson 2016, 293.
32 Dickson 2016, 294.
33 Shambaugh 2016, 131–134.
34 Dickson 2016, 265–272; see also 285–289.
35 Dickson 2016, 290.
36 Dickson 2016, 312.
37 White 2016, 205.