Public opinion as personal cultivation: A normative notion and a source of social control in traditional China

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 298-322

  Cho, Hyunyi ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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