… showing up, over sixty countries signing onto China’s effort, ancient trade routes being …
Chinese state media tout. They saw maps of new economic corridors running outward from China…

… This is one of rare books devoted to mission in China and published in North America that
draws on Chinese archival sources, which have been generally unavailable to American and …

… By any account, the United States lags far behind other … Anne Alstott makes the case for state
support of families by … imposed, in part, by the state; the state thus has an obligation to care …

… Just as today’s reformers in China confront the legacies of a centrally planned, state socialist
… possible as it sought to remake the industrial sector and China’s industrial working class. …

… We aim to demonstrate how the property rights related with land redevelopment are defined
by the state, and how such a structured property rights regime impacts on the remaking of …

… over national borders and which draws from China’s ancient cosmopolitan heritage and
projected … -state as iconic representations that speak to different ontologies of China. Analyzing …

… when we consider the connection between the local state and the metropole (London in
the past and Beijing at present). The imbalance between China and Hong Kong, cast in a ‘…

… on the official emblem of the People's Republic of China; from its balcony Mao Zedong
proclaimed the establishment of the new state in 1949. His portrait hanging there was defaced by …

… Surnaming practices may reflect state policy and social actors’ responses to state initiatives;
indeed, as we will see, surnaming practices are family strategies of social and economic …

… But the chapters in this book also point to an impressive degree of flexibility and versatility
on the part of the Chinese state. Though results are rarely immediate, mobilization by the …