How to pronounce“restive”in English
So there's an ebbing and flowing of hard and soft forms of authoritarianism over time in China, but there's also a geographical dimension. In areas with significantly large and periodically
restive non-Han populations such as Xinjiang and Tibet, the modes of control tend to remain much more 1984, even when the country as a whole is in a Brave New World mode. Conversely
in booming East Coast cities such as Shanghai with their cultures of distraction, epitomize by public spaces dominated by massive video screens and their glittering department stores,
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Definitions of “restive”
Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
“The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.”
Resistant to control; stubborn.
“Yet I am of Opinion, this Defect ariſeth chiefly from a perverſe, reſtive Diſpoſition. For they are cunning, malicious, treacherous and revengeful.”
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