China's Political System provides a concise introduction to the political, economic, and
social factors that determine China's government. Highly respected specialist June Teufel …

Conventional analysis of government typically focuses on 'politics', that is, interests, conflicts
or personalities. But governing a country is not only a task of successfully governing its …

First published in 1996. Is ideology still relevant in post-Mao China? Deng Xiaoping's wide-
ranging economic reforms have led to declarations that ideology in China is merely a cynical …

First Published in 2004. This remarkable book continues the work begun by Ian Jeffries in
Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market: A Guide (1993) and A Guide to the …

The outbreak of peaceful protest in China from April to June 1989 has served to highlight
lacunae in the existing Western literature on human rights in China, both in a definitional …

Since Deng Xiaoping first defined the trajectory of" socialist modernization" in December
1978, the creation of an effective body of intellectual property law has become a crucial …

Many scholars have analysed bargaining between supervisory bureaucracies and Chinese
large and medium-sized factories. Walder identified a web of informal, semi-bureaucratic …

This thesis comprises a series of ethnographic perspectives on China's largest city,
Shanghai. It is based primarily upon seventeen months anthropological research conducted …

Scholars have long wanted to understand how leaders find out about pressing issues that
require their attention. In this dissertation, I examine institutions that promote citizen contact …

By the second half of the 1980s, economic reform in China had produced differentiated
interests between regions and a decentralized authority in the country. The central …