There is a growing realization in academic and policy circles that the double transition to
democracy and the market may not be as simple or as easy as first imagined. Beginning with …

The book looks at China's rural development experience as a whole since 1949. It analyzes
China's agricultural performance and traces it back to the technology and other sources that …

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a
difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited …

The events of 1989, culminating in Tiananmen Square, highlighted the extent to which
democratic ideals had taken root in China. Baogang He traces and evaluates the political …

China Against the Tides, 3rd Edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China
evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries …

Democratization has been spreading like brush fire since the 1980s, breaking barriers and
gaining foothold in new territories, although not with equal success in all parts of the world …

Chinese literature has been the slave of politics at least since 1948 and especially during
the Cultural Revolution. So repressed and convoluted is most Chinese literature that the …

This essay starts from two premises: that, as far as the articulation and mobilization of
popular interest in the countryside are concerned, the “best teams won” in the Chinese and …

Prior to 1976, legislatures did not play a significant role in Chinese politics. In the last
decade, however, efforts have been made to revamp the Chinese legislative system and …

" In the early 1980s, in the town of Heihe on China's northeast border with the Soviet Union
in what was formerly northern Manchuria (Bei Man), a teacher, editor, and local Party official …