少数服从多数 (shǎoshū fúcóng duōshū) The minority obeys the majority. This, it seems, is also the guiding 'principle' of decision-making in China. The results of an 8-month research project in ten provinces in China, includng Xīnjiāng, Inner Mongolia and Tibet, are now published in
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