3/ Shitong Qiao @shitongqiao.bsky.social who is quoted in the NYT story has written THE definitive book on homeowners association as spaces for political activism and engagement in China. It's meticulous and brilliant.
scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_book...
Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and ...
