But the Chinese energy revolution has been quietly gaining strength, observers say.
For hundreds of millions of Chinese, the information revolution may truly live up to its name.
Some Chinese scholars say the revolution did little for China except to usher in chaotic warlordism, followed by authoritarian government.
It could have been the signal of the start of a fashion revolution: the Chinese are going to take over the world.
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From the French Revolution to the Chinese one, most revolutionary leaders have been university-educated, middle-class people who were marginalized by society and had their hopes thwarted.
After attending the Global Summit on Social Change earlier this month, I would agree that it is a revolution and that Chinese leaders are taking it seriously.
As a result of these two major high-technology conflicts waged in the past decade, Chinese military analysts generally recognize and accept that some type of revolution in warfare is afoot.
Mr Locke said it was clear China's leaders were unnerved by calls on the internet last year for Chinese people to stage their own Arab-style "jasmine revolution", despite the fact that few people heeded the calls.
The Chinese people themselves don't appear to have an appetite for revolution.
In the 1970s, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai his opinion on the chief consequences of the French Revolution.
The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
The film, covering the period from the revolution of 1911 to the Communist Party's founding in 1921, prompted numerous comments on Chinese internet forums about the lessons it offered for rebelling against bad government.
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