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Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society, with an emphasis on contemporary China. Fu earned her Ph.D. in Politics and her Ph.M. in International Development at Oxford University.
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