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The author narrates in this paper what has been happening in China since 1979 from his own experience and his personal views, in order to explain what reform means and looks like in a socialist country like China. He thinks that the most palpable defect of the existing system in this country is that it still shows no rule of law, and has weak judicial power. Campaign of the opposition forces against "spiritual pollution" in 1983-84 and against "bourgeois liberalisation" in December 1986-January 1987. The issues discussed at the 13th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1987. (DÜI-Sen)

Political culture is a very specific type of spiritual culture of society. The political culture includes, expresses the formation of a mechanism for purposeful political activity, the regulation of political relations.

Aaron Wildavsky has argued that it is theoretically more useful to think of political preferences as rooted in political culture than to entertain alternative bases such as schemas or ideologies. In the APSA presidential address in which he made his case, Wildavsky also advocated a program of research on political cultures, and welcomed "challenges and improvements." David Laitin accepts the invitation; he variously takes issue with Wildavsky's concept of political culture.