La transizione della democrazia rurale in Cina

Abstract China doesn’t simply represent an “economic revolutionary model”,since something seems to have been changing and moving even on the political level, as shown by the democratic elections of the village committees. The latter are a symptom of an opening, albeit timid, step to the Western democratic principles and values which have been taking shape in the Rural China since the last two decades of the last century. It is an experience that is part of a wider and debated issue concerning the process of democratization in China, pointing out its evident limits and possible developments.