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Public opinion polling in China: A descriptive review

This story shows the very risk one faces when making an assertion about another person’s mind. Unfortunately, our social scientists, particularly public opinion researchers, are almost always confronted with dangers of this kind. In Zhuang’s homeland, say China, the task may be more complicated than elsewhere, simply because there are one billion people. This article, however, does not intend to report what Chinese people think. Instead, it presents how Chinese pollsters try to get to know what their people think. First of all, a brief historical review of the conventional Panel Discussion approach, widely-used in public opinion studies for more than half a century, is given. Then, the article