Word: scalapino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Scalapino, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, suspects that a deep-seated need for stability on the part of most Chinese will induce the next generation of leaders to opt for a system of political authoritarianism but social and economic pluralism. Says he: "Even the intellectuals remember the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and the warlord period, and they don't want to go back...