01250pab a2200181 454500 180718b2013 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Xiao, Weibing Freedom of information reform in China: Information flow analysis 2013 p.790-808. Dec Freedom of Information (FOI) in China is often perceived as a recent and intriguing phenomenon. This book presents a more complex and detailed understanding of the evolution of FOI in China, using information flow analysis to explore the gradual development of government receptivity to FOI in an information environment through time. The book argues that it is necessary to reassess the widely divergent origins of FOI reform in China, and asserts that social, political and legal factors should have central roles in understanding the development of FOI in China. The book uses information flow analysis to find that FOI reform in China formed part of a much longer process of increased transparency in the Chinese information environment. Reproduced. Freedom of information - China Freedom of information International Review of Administrative Sciences N 102959 102957 102957 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 79, Issue no: 4 AR103419 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR