Nearly three decades after Mao's death and more than fifteen years after the Tiananmen
uprising, China is still a Leninist Party-state. In fact, one might well argue that the prospects …

In November 2002, a form of atypical pneumonia called severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) began spreading rapidly around the world, prompting the World Health Organization …

Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing
economies over the past two decades, their income inequality patterns are very different. An …

In the first decade of the 21st century, governments in many countries around the world
expanded or redesigned their support for the development and deployment of advanced …

China's rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs.
This book provides a critical overview of how China's growing need for oil imports is shaping …

Recent studies of policy and policy actors in C hina have made use of the policy
entrepreneur concept that has been popular in studies of policy in N orth A merica and E …

How did China construct effective crisis governance systems to cope with a transboundary
crisis like COVID-19? By integrating policy regime and campaign theories, this article …

This study analyzes academic journal articles in order to depict the features of Chinese crisis
communication in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The findings revealed the …

Legislative gridlock is often viewed as a uniquely democratic phenomenon. The institutional
checks and balances that produce gridlock are absent from authoritarian systems, leading …

The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is
controversial both inside and outside China, particularly because of the large number of …