# Bad Elements

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- Book: [Bad Elements](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/bad-elements) ([Bad Elements.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/bad-elements.md))
- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7978-136-3
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2003-01-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found...